艾米莉·狄金森:“穿透黑色草皮的百合花”

Emily Dickinson:"The Lily Passes Sure The Dark Sod"

和同时代的惠特曼一样富于革命性,艾米莉·狄金森挣脱了19世纪诗歌形式的束缚,冲破了传统诗歌理论的禁锢。狄金森是如何寻找到了诗歌创新的灵感?从她相关的诗歌理论中,似乎可以获得一些答案。狄金森宣称自己受困于文化对女人的传统期待,这种文化的力量会使诗人失去灵感和创造力。她珍惜一切未被提炼、装盒、分类的事物,一切黑不黑,白不白,未被一个定义所限定,只能根据个人眼光来判断的事物。因此狄金森的诗歌就是要维护不受社会和宗教法令所束缚的事物、流动变化的事物,未被文化中各种约束和规矩冲淡,那就是诗,也是狄金森能够实现诗歌创新的根源。

As revolutionary as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson broke the bounds of the 19th-century verse form, refusing the constraints of conventional poetics. How could she spread her wings and fly away from her real-world confinements through her poems? And where did she find resources for her innovative brilliance? Perhaps, we will find an answer in her relevant arguments. Dickinson said that she was confined to conventional and cultural expectations for the female, and all these expectations were the forces that kept the poet from her own creativity. She values what is 'unrefined,' unboxed, uncategorized, what is not 'black or white,' and what is not pinned down by a single definition, seen only according to one light. Dickinson' s poetic strategic involves valorizing of that which is not fixed by social or religious decree; divinity for this poet is a fluid thing. Undimmed by culturally determined categories and definitions: that is poetry, and is also the base for Dickinson to achieve her innovative brilliance in poetry.