管萧婚曲声中的流浪者——柯尔律治《古舟子咏》中的基督教主题

The Vagabond Against the Marriage Song:Christianity in Coleridge's Rime of Ancient Mariner

在纷繁复杂的版本构成史和批评阅读史背景之下,评论家从宗教、伦理、心理分析、传记学、哲学、美学和政治学等角度,对《古舟子咏》进行了精彩、动人的论述。但字里行间确实存在的一个深刻而明显的寓意,却是评论文字未曾阐发的,即人是永远的流浪者,绝对意义上从原罪的阴影和桎梏中走出来是不可能的。人须努力回报上帝仁慈的爱,在不断的忏悔中追求救赎。这才是《古舟子咏》阐释的人与上帝真实的辩证关系。

Commentators have had insightful discussions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through such various approaches as religion, psychoanalysis, biographical examination, philosophy, aesthetics, and politics against the complicated history of textual and reading background. However, one thing is obviously neglected by all previous critics: between the lines there lies an implicit allegory of man as a permanent vagabond for whom it is impossible to walk out of the shadow of the original sin. Thus man has to make a great effort to redound God's love and to redeem himself in constant confession.