必要的天使之外——评华莱士·史蒂文斯的《雪人》

Beyond the Necessary Angel——On Wallace Stevens's The Snow Man

作为一位诗歌理论和实践一致的诗人,史蒂文斯在其短制诗歌杰作《雪人》中探讨了自然在人类精神生活中的重要作用,同时强调诗人的观察力和想象力对于艺术世界构建的重要作用。史蒂文斯在这首短诗中流露出强烈的美国浪漫主义-超验主义色彩和现象学的理念,强调人与自然的融合和统一,实现爱默生所谓的"透明的我"的状态,展示出20世纪美国现代主义诗风主导的诗坛中浪漫主义风格的回归。

As a poet with strong poetry theory-practice consciousness, Wallace Stevens probes the essential way nature works upon observer＇s imagination in his masterpiece short poem The Snow Man while stressing the constructive role played by the poet＇s observation and imagination in the construction of the artistic world. Stevens illuminates the strong color of American Romanticism-Transcenden- talism and notion of phenomenology, emphasizes the integration and unification of Man and Nature, demonstrates the state of ＂transparent self＂ proposed by Emerson and displays the return of Romanticism in the modernism dominant poetry in the 20th century of the United States.