忧伤与绝望:詹姆斯·赖特诗歌中的英雄主义

Distressed and Despair: Heroism in James Wright's Poem

在反思现代工业文明背景下从事体力劳动的工人的生活境遇等问题意识下,诗人和学者把眼光投向人物的内心世界。詹姆斯·赖特创作的诗歌"秋天在俄亥俄的马丁斯费里开始了"描绘了在他家乡,劳动工人们普遍低落的身心状态。在面对家庭责任时,他们愧疚不堪;在想到人生理想时,他们只能从孩子们身上重温少年时代的英雄梦。文章通过对劳动工人们内心世界的挖掘,对美国当时经济状况的分析以及对劳动工人英雄主义思想等问题的探究,阐述在美国现代工业高速发展的20世纪50年代,劳动工人消极的个人生活的根源与实质。

In reflecting the harsh conditions of physical laborers under the modern industrial civilization, poets and experts turn their attention upon the psychological world of the laborers. James Wright＇s ＂Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio＂ describes the laborers＇ depressed state ： in facing the domestic obligation, they are embarrassed; in thinking of lifelong dreams, they can only recall the boyhood dreams from their offspring. Through delving into American economic condition, the laborers＇ psychological state, and their depressed heroism, the paper discloses the essence of the distressed social situations.