论英国唯美主义的时间比喻

On the metaphors of time of British aestheticism

唯美主义者是如何应对时代精神危机感的呢?这在他们的时间比喻中可见一斑。一方面,英国唯美主义的代表作把时间比喻成祭品、溪流、飞燕和火焰。另一方面,这些作品暗示:爱情、激情和有关视觉艺术的文学创作能战胜时间,成为不朽的永恒。本文通过分析这些时间比喻证明,无论是爱情、激情,还是对视觉艺术的描绘,都无法摆脱时间的限制成为永恒;唯美主义者并没有在"美的殿堂"中找到"上帝的天堂"。

How did the British aestheticists face this crisis? Their temporal metaphors may drop us a hint. On the one hand, the representative works of British aestheticism compare time to such things as sacrifice, stream, swallow and flame. On the other hand, they suggest that love, passion and the representation of visual arts can escape the movement of time and become immortal. By analyzing the temporal metaphors, this paper proves that neither love and passion nor the representation of visual arts is able to break away from the confines of time to become immortal and that the aestheticists haven't found 'God's heaven' in their 'secure house of beauty'.