失望与希望的二重唱——艾略特戏剧组诗《“磐石”合唱词》核心精神探讨

Hope and Disappointment:the Spiritual Kernel of T.S.Eliot's Choruses from "The Rock"

艾略特后期作品《磐石》作为一组戏剧合唱词,在思想内容与艺术形式上具有双重的开创性,因此具有独立的意义与价值。合唱词集中表现了诗人的主体精神:天地轮转、生死轮回乃自然规律,人间善与恶的争斗永不改变;但是,人类要有对于上帝的信仰,要有自适自足的精神生活。这种主体精神正是在"失望"与"希望"的二重唱里才得到充分表达,正是"失望"与"希望"的二重唱产生了其主体精神的两重性,并由此决定了组诗在整体艺术构思与艺术传达上的鲜明特点。由"失望"与"希望"两个半圆所组成的一个圆形,正是其精神形态的内在核心与外在表征。

The Rock,a collection of choruses as one of the late masterpieces of T.S.Eliot,displays its unique value of innovation in both the theme and the artistic form.The choruses reflect the poet's spiritual beliefs that,on one hand,the transmigration of the universe and the soul is part of the natural law while the struggle between the good and the evil in the human world exists forever,and on the other hand,the human beings must have belief in God with pursuit of their spiritual self-sufficiency.This belief is presented in the 'duet' of hope and disappointment,which produces the thematic duality and endows the choruses with the uniqueness in artistic conception and performance.Hope and disappointment as two contrastive themes are combined to constitute the spiritual kernel of the collection of choruses.