试论诗歌的空间叙事

A Tentative Study of the Spatial Narrative of Poetry

相对于小说叙事的研究来说,诗歌叙事的研究几乎是一片空白。本文从叙事空间理论入手,探讨研究诗歌叙事的可能性。从瞬时空间并置、物理形式及精神空间的构建来看,诗歌是一门空间艺术,是一系列意象的有机组合,每一个意象既是一个相对独立的诗性空间,又是诗歌空间叙事的基本单元。诗歌意象的叙事功能总的来看主要体现在三个方面:奠定诗歌的整体基调,制约诗歌的叙事节奏,推动诗歌的叙事进程。由此观之,诗歌的空间叙事实质上就是诗歌意象的空间叙事。

As of now, little exploration has been done into poetry narrative in comparison to that into fiction narrative. This article therefore focuses on a possible approach to poetry narrative studies from the perspective of spatial theories in narrative. For this endeavour, we treat poetry as a spatial art in terms of simultaneous spatial juxtaposition, physical form and the construction of spiritual space. Each poem comprises a series of organically interwoven images, each of which is a relatively independent poetic space and serves as the basic narrative unit in the spatial narrative of the poem. Generally speaking, poetic images have three narrative functions： setting the general tone of the poem, determining its narrative tempo, and advancing its development. Based upon this concept, we may say that the spatial narrative of poetry is in fact determined by the spatial narrative of poetic images.