释“诗言志”——兼论中国诗学“开山的纲领”

An Explanation of “Poetry Expressing One’s Will”: On the Originative Outline of Chinese Poetics

本文就“诗言志”这一古老的诗学命题加以逐层分疏,不仅对“志”的确切内涵、“言”与“志”的对立统一关系以及“诗言志”观念的形成与演化过程有一具体的把握,更着眼于揭示中国诗学的这一原生细胞中所蕴含着的整个诗学传统的逻辑建构,由此而重新阐发了其作为中国诗学的“开山的纲领”的深远历史意义。

This text explains the antique poetic preposition “poetry expressing one’s will” in detail. It concretely grasps not only the exact connotation of the “will”, the contradictory unity of the “expressing” and the “will”, and the formation and evolution of this politic idea, but also fixes attention on the logically constructive force of this fundamental Chinese poetic idea towards the integral poetic tradition, and thus reveals once again the profound historical significance of this idea “poetry expressing one’s will” as the originative outline Chinese poetics.