词心说

Toward Mood in Ci Poetry

"词心"虽系晚清词论家提出的一个词学范畴,但却揭示了唐宋以来词人在创作中独有的心理状态:或"一往而深,而怨悱不乱",或出于至情至性,所谓"不能不尔"。正是由于这种种"赋情独深,逐境必寤"的词心表现,才可能创作出与诗、曲、散文等其他文学样式不同的具有独特美感的词情词境。

The ＂mood in Ci＂,though a category of ciology put forward by the ci theorist in the late Qing Dynasty,reveals a unique state of mind of the ci writers in their writings since Tang and Song Dynasties： finding an expression in either deep feeling,moderate grievance and suppressed bitterness,or ＂cannot-be-otherwise＂ genuine affection and natural instincts.It is just because of the varied expressions of the mood in ci,the expressions which enable the writer to enter his innermost feelings towards an inevitable precise and appropriate revealing,that makes it possible for ci to generate its interest and artistic conception with a special sense of beauty embodied and different from those of other literary genres such as poetry,qu and prose.