惠特曼《我自己的歌》中的“生态自我”意识

On the Consciousness of "Ecological Self" Embodied in Whitman’s Song of Myself

以生态批评理论重读经典作品是文学研究的一个新动向。美国现代诗人惠特曼的《草叶集》中蕴涵了19世纪文学作品中朴素的生态思想。其中的名篇《我自己的歌》更是以自然为背景,从时间和空间双重角度兼收并蓄,营造出涵盖人类、自然和神性的不朽"自我"。这种"自我"已经初步透露出20世纪深层生态学所倡导的"生态自我"的萌芽意识。

Adopting eco-criticism to re-read classics is a new trend in literature review. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass contains his original consciousness of ecological thinking. Song of Myself, the representative poem of this collection, uses Nature as the setting to celebrate the self. Whitman’s self absorbs the essence of both space and time, therefore becomes an immortal self consisting of human, nature and piety. His concept of self reveals the original consciousness of Ecological Self that is expressed in ＂Deep Ecology＂ in the 20th century.