三位一体，三次回旋——《当紫丁香最近在庭院中开放的时候》赏析

A Trinity and Three Involutions

《当紫丁香最近在庭院中开放的时候》是美国诗人华尔特·惠特曼(1819—1892)为纪念亚伯拉罕·林肯在华盛顿遇刺身亡而作的一首伟大的挽诗。本文作者从结构和诗人思想的三次迂回对诗歌进行了赏析。

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd is an elegy on the death of Lincoln by Walt Whitman. According to the author here, in the long poem , the thrush, lilacs and the great star appear three times as a trinity, causing three involutions in the poem, the poet's thought and feeling, leading to the poet's final liberation from the beloved - Lincoln and the sublimation from Lincoln's death to general death.