闻一多《女神》批评与《红烛》创作考论

On Wen Yi-duo's Criticism of the Goddess and his Creation of The Red Candles

闻一多关于《女神》的两篇评论是新诗史上的重要文献。他在高度赞扬《女神》时代精神的同时,又批评《女神》“薄于地方色彩”,有严重的欧化倾向,从而提出了中国新诗“应是时代的经线与地方的纬线编织的一匹锦”的重要观点。而他自己在创作《红烛》时自觉地贯彻了这一艺术主张,使鲜明的民族特色成为《红烛》的明显美学特征。

The two commentaries written by Wen Yi duo on The Goddess are important books in the new poetic history. While praising highly the spirit of the times of The Goddess, he criticized it “lacking the national color” and having serious tendency of Europeanization. Therefore he put forward the important viewpoint that Chinese new poetry “should be a piece of brocade woven by the longitude lines of times and the latitude lines of the nation.” He conscientiously carried out the literary viewpoint when he produced The Red Candle himself, making vivid national color become its apparent aesthetic feature.