巴塞尔姆《玻璃山》中的后现代诗歌隐喻

The Postmodern Poetic Metaphor in Barthelme's The Glass Mountain

将唐纳德.巴塞尔姆的《玻璃山》的各方面特征与诗歌的起源、形式主题及本质等几方面进行类比,说明《玻璃山》具有诗性语言的特征,在体裁上可纳入诗歌范畴;进而以《玻璃山》这个后现代文本为依据,从文化隐喻、意象隐喻两个方面揭示出文本中意象的隐喻意义,从而得出结论:巴塞尔姆的《玻璃山》一文描述了诗人写诗的过程,作者通过散文化的诗歌语言表现出改变语言功能的决定,从而实现将语言从符号层面转化为事物的本真的目的。

A comparison is made in this essay between the characteristics of The Glass Mountain and the origin, the form and the nature of poetry to show that the language in the text has poetic feature, and that The Glass Mountain could be brought into the genre of poetry. This paper reveals the metaphorical meaning of the images in the text from two perspectives： cultural metaphor and imagery metaphor. Therefore, the conclusion is drawn that Barthelme＇ s The Glass Mountain describes the process of how a poet composes poems, and the writer tends to show his wish of changing the function of language through poetic language with prose style, thus realizing his aim of making language break away from the symbolic level to the innate essential property of a thing.