心灵的呼唤,情感的音符——托马斯·哈代自传体诗简析

Call of the Heart and the Note of the Emotions:An Analysis of Thomas Hardy’s Autobiographical Poems

哈代一生中创作了大量的诗歌,其中大部分是自传性诗篇,记录了他一生中的点点滴滴,从青年时代苦涩的恋爱,到初见埃玛时的欣喜,到埃玛去世后的痛苦回忆,再到经历了人生悲欢之后的超然宁静,字里行间跳跃着他内心的感受,仿佛从他心田里流淌出来的音符。从哈代的自传体诗歌里,不仅可以读到他人生中经历的快乐、愤懑、悲伤和喜悦,而且可以欣赏到他在诗歌上非凡的创作能力和杰出成就。他的诗语言质朴清新,感情真挚深厚,内容与形式及韵律达到了完美结合。这使他成为20世纪初英国诗坛的一名伟大的自传体诗人。

Hardy composed a great number of poems in his life and the great majority of them are autobiographical. From the painful love in his youth to the rej oicing at the first meeting with Emma, to the bitter memory after Emma’s death, and to the peaceful indifference after going through the ups and downs of life, the notes of Hardy’s inner feelings are reflected between the lines. From thes e autobiographical poems, readers could see not only Hardy’s happiness, indigna tion, sorrow and delight, but also his outstanding poetic creativity and achieve ments. The language of Hardy’s poems is plain and fresh and the emotions are de ep and genuine. The themes and the forms are matched perfectly with carefully ch osen rhymes. All the aforementioned characteristics make Hardy a great autobiogr aphical poet in the history of British literature at the turn of 19th century.