世界上最富有诗意的主题——试析《乌鸦》的意象美和音韵美

The Most Poetic Theme in the World——On the Beauty of Sounds and Images of The Revan

埃德加·爱伦·坡是一位天才诗人,他的身世直接影响到他的创作主题:死亡———“美女之夭亡和失美之哀伤”,忧郁和悲伤是其基本基调。其诗歌代表作———《乌鸦》是一件纯艺术品。诗中调用各种意象对忧郁感伤、阴森可怕的气氛浓墨重彩的烘托,使诗歌具有一种油画般凝固的意象美;而语音、韵律的巧妙使用,则构成了流动的音乐美,从而淋漓尽致地表现了爱伦·坡“唯美主义”的创作艺术,使该诗产生了非凡的艺术魅力。

Edgar Allan Poe was a poet of genius. His brief lifetime of frustrations directly reflects in the theme of his art creation: Death, esp. the death of a woman of beauty and the great sorrow of beauty-lost. Blue and sorrow is the main tone of his art. The masterpiece of his poetry, The Raven, is a pure art. In this poem, the poet adopted various images which formed a dark and gloomy atmosphere to facilitate the poem characterizing with solid beauty of images. Meanwhile, the ingenious uses of sound and rhyme, contribute much to the flow beauty of music, jointly manifest Poe's eternal pursuit of aestheticism and achieve much charming the poem with immortal fame.