弗罗斯特诗歌中家的隐喻及其社会伦理

Metaphor of Home and Its Social Ethics in the Poetry of Robert Frost

罗伯特·弗罗斯特诗歌中的家总是坐落于远离现代都市的偏僻新英格兰农村,给人一种强烈的孤独的地域感,然而其隐喻及其文化内涵却使它们超越了地域的限制。弗罗斯特借此探讨在现代科学、现代工业发展冲击下家的变迁。通过分析可以发现:笃信个人主义和自立的他,在家庭的社会伦理问题上同样持二元论及平衡论的观点,在强调现代丈化背景下邻里关系的重要性的同时,又强调在家庭社会责任问题上自立与博爱之间平衡的必要性。

Houses in the poems of Robert Frost always situate themselves in the remote New England countryside far away from modem cities, leaving to the readers a strong sense of lonely regionalism. Yet the regional restriction is transcended by its metaphor and cultural implications, with which Frost explore the changes of home under the impact of modem scientific and industrial development. This paper analyzes these and the social ethnics of home in the poetry to the effect that the poet, with his faith in individualism and self-reliance, holds fast to notions of dualism and balance in the matter of social ethnics of home. He emphasizes the importance of neighborly bond and the necessity of balance between self-reliance and philanthropy.