《忽必烈汗》残篇里的奇幻中国

Dreaming of China in the Fragment of Kubla Khan

柯勒律治的《忽必烈汗》,意象突兀诡异,情景苍莽幽邃,主题若隐若现,节奏韵律变换无定,充分体现出梦境中奇幻的特征。他在诗中对中国、上都、忽必烈汗的描写,并不旨在描摹现实,而是借中国题材作为驰骋想象力、渲染异国情调的艺术空间。忽必烈汗和他的御苑,经过柯勒律治想象力的雕琢和异国情调的涂染,悬挂在文学园林里的长青藤上,被古往今来的文人墨客一次又一次地抚摸。

In Coleridge’s Kubla Khan,the images are abrupt and quirky, the scenes are boundless, deep and serene, the theme is gleaming,and the rhythms are changeable. All these show characteristics of a strange dream.His description of China, Xanadu and Kubla Khan is not aiming at drawing pictures of real scenes,but using China as an art space to fly the author’s imagination and tinge the poem with exoticism. Carved by Coleridge’s imagination and tinged with exoticism, Kubla Khan and his magnificent garden, hanging in the evergreen tree of literary garden, attract the eyes of literary men of all ages.