毕肖普的“水”诗歌:认知、记忆与“否定的感知力”

E.Bishop's Water Poems:Cognition,Memory and "Negative Capability"

书写之于美国现代经典诗人毕肖普是一种赋予经验以意义的认知和记忆方式。在毕肖普《诗歌全集:1927-1979》收录的110首诗中,直接关乎"水"的就占了44首。毕肖普的"水"属于赫拉克利特的世界,是能造成双重心理感知并可无限转化的流体;作为实体的毕肖普的"水",其对立的本原属性通常是倒置的,偏离事物的理想认知模式。她的"水"既构成诗歌的物质意象又参与诗歌主体对世界的认知与记忆;"水"诗歌体现出她对客体事物审慎的否定感知力。

For Elizabeth Bishop, a canon poet in modem American poetry, literacy is a mode of cognition and memory, rendering her otherwise chaotic experiences construable and meaningful. Out of the 110 poems from Elizabeth Bishop ： The Complete Poems 1927-1979, 44 are directly associated with water. Belonging to a Heraclitean world, Bishop＇s water is a flux object capable of evoking opposite perceptions and sustaining endless transformations. The opposite source natures peculiar to water as an entity are always reversed in Bishop＇s water poems, transcending the idealized cognitive model. Water serves not only as imagery in her poems but also as an element engaged water poems embody fully her masterful in forming the cognition and memory of the poetic subject. Bishop＇s negative capability of beholding objective entities.