篱墙:花园与旷野——文艺复兴时期英国园林诗歌研究

Hedges: The Garden and the Wilderness

文艺复兴时期英国诗歌中的园林意象大多以正规花园的特点为基础。篱墙内外的不同,以及花园与旷野之间的对照,为诗人提供了社会、政治、宗教和道德伦理等方面寓意深刻的象征。营造园林常被看作是对伊甸园的模仿,而园林意象也往往用于基督教乐园主题,或反映人们回归理想乐园的渴望,或表现对崇高精神境界的热切追求。

Garden images in the English Renaissance poetry are mostly based on the features of the normal garden. The differences between both sides of the garden hedge or wall, and the contrast between the garden and the wilderness, provide for the poet many a symbol fraught with social, political, religious, or moral significance. To cultivate a garden is often conceived of as a simulation of the Garden of Eden, and garden images are frequently applied to the Christian paradise themes, reflecting man's yearning for the ideal paradise to which he will eventually journey, or for a lofty spiritual state of which he is in ardent pursuit.