谢灵运山水诗新探

A New Study on the Poems of Landscape by Xie Linyun

长久以来,人们常常低估谢灵运山水诗中理语的价值,将其看成“玄言的尾巴”。这种从简单进化论的角度出发的观点,有待进一步商榷。事实上,如果考察谢灵运山水诗的实际创作,可以发现谢灵运山水诗中的理语并非尽是玄言亦非诗歌的尾巴。尽管这些理语受到玄风的影响,然而其实质却并不在于谈玄说理,或装点门面,而是对文人孤独情绪的表达。这也是决定谢灵运此类诗称为山水诗而不是玄言诗的关键。因此,以更实际的态度认识谢灵运山水诗中的理语是对谢灵运山水诗做出全面、客观评价的重要步骤。

For a long time, people have underestimated the value of the part of philosophy in the poems of landscape by Xie Linyun and called it ＂Tail of Metaphysics＂. This opinion is based on a sort of simple evolutionism and awaits further discussion. In fact, from the poems of landscape by Xie Linyun, we will find that all the parts of philosophy in those poems are not metaphysical. Although the parts of philosophy are affected by the atmosphere of metaphysics, their substance does not rest with the need of discussing metaphysics, but with the expression of the scholars＇ lonely mood, which is the key reason why this kind of poems by Xie Linyun is called the poems of landscape but not of Metaphysics. Therefore studying the parts of philosophy in the poems of landscape by Xie Linyun in a more realistic attitude is a very important step for evaluating those poems in an all-round and objective way.