被抛弃的命运——读王粲《七哀诗》之一

The Fate of Being Abandoned——One of WangCan'QiAi poems

十六岁的王粲被迫告别故土而身历不测之蛮乡,就如同未成人的孩子脱离了母亲的怀抱。《七哀诗》中所描写的荒草间号泣的婴儿释放出诗人被国家抛弃的悲痛和对荒蛮未知世界的恐惧。而那位母亲"未知身死处"的预言则更象是对其将来命运的一种暗示。汉末诗人笔下出现的大量的弃儿形象都是一种"隐喻",以此抒写对人生被命运所支配的普遍感受。

WangCan had to leave his hometown and come to the deserted land when he was sixteen years old, as if the underage child had been separated from his mother＇ embrace. In QiAi Poems, The description of the srying baby in the grassland released the grief which the poet was abandoned by the state, and the fear from the unknown world. And that mother＇s words, ＂I don＇ t know where he will die,＂ even predicted the fate of his future as a hint. In the late Han Dynasty, the image of abandoned children was a ＂metaphor＂, by this the poet expressed the universal feeling which was controlled by the destiny.