枫树悲凉意蕴成因论

On the Causes of the Desolate Image of Maple

枫树意象的形成是一个漫长的历史过程。枫树的自然特征是它从物象上升为意象的客观条件;它浓重的悲凉意蕴来自上古神话中的原型;《楚辞.招魂》开辟了枫林吟咏的先河;唐人悲感的文化心态升华了枫树意象,并使它在唐诗中最终定型;枫树的气韵之美和意境之雄,扩大了悲秋作品的情感张力;唐人对《楚辞》的接受,使枫树意象与伤春情境形成了完美的交融。

The formation of maple image lasted for a long period in history.From an object,maple turned into a literary image objectively owing to its natural features.Its strong desolate implication originated from its prototype in ancient myth.Maples were first chanted in Chuci.The image was sublimated because of the sentimental cultural psychology of Tang Literati and finally formed in their poems.The beautiful and grand artistic conception of maples increase the expressiveress of the emotion in works mourning autumn.Tang literati connected maples with the sentiment for spring as a matter of course under the influence of Chuci.