从《雪野宁静》看美国当代诗歌的某种转向

A Turning of American Contemporary Poetry:A Study on Robert Bly’s Silence in the Snowy Fields

《雪野宁静》是美国当代著名诗人罗伯特.勃莱的开山之作,出版于二十世纪六十年代初,它出版后经历了一个从广受质疑与贬斥到倍受欢迎与赞颂的接受过程,有批评家认为,"它标志着一个时代的结束,另一个时代的开始"。二十世纪上半叶美国诗歌是由以艾略特、庞德、威廉斯等为代表的现代派独领风骚,而《雪野宁静》出版后所遭遇的不平凡经历,迥异于现代主义的诗歌风格,其独特的艺术气质给我们开启了一扇了解一段美国诗歌历史的窗口,美国诗歌正是在这一时期发生了某种根本性的转向。

Silence in the Snowy Fields is the first book by Robert Bly,a contemporary American poet.It was published in the early 1960s.After the publication,it has undergone a period of two totally different reception attitudes： from doubt and depreciation to high praise and wide recognition.Some critic thinks that ＂the book signals the end of an era and the beginning of another.＂ The first half of the twentieth century in the history of American poetry is known to be dominated by Modernism represented by such poets as T.S.Eliot,Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.Through the study of the book Silence of the Snowy Fields in its unique experience,distinctive poetic style and fresh artistic favors,we can come to a good understanding of a certain period of American poetry history.It is the very time after the publication of Bly’s book that American poetry was taking a new turning.