苏珊·朗格美学视野下的《雪莉角》

Point Shirley under Susanne K.Langer’s aesthetic theory

西尔维娅·普拉斯是美国现代诗坛极具艺术才华的女诗人,其写于1959年的《雪莉角》围绕外祖母位于海边的家而展开。由于普拉斯外祖母的家就在雪莉角且普拉斯和外祖母间有着深厚感情,学者一般认为这是首悼念外祖母的挽歌。突破普拉斯的个人叙事,采用苏珊·朗格的美学理论来分析,这首诗实际上是普拉斯创造的一个生活幻象,诗歌中的每个元素都只具符号性,不具真实性。这个幻象同时具有生命体征,它包含着人类的普遍情感,具有超越自白派的深层意蕴。

Sylvia Plath （1932-1963） is a very talented female poet in modern American poetry. She is famous for her highly personalized themes. Point Shirley, about her grandmother, was written in 1959. Since the home of Plath’s grandmother lies in the Point Shirley and Plath loves her grandmother very much, scholars generally consider it as an elegy mourning her grandmother. This paper regards the poem as a life image by using Susanne K. Langer ’s aesthetic theory. Every element in the poem is a symbol rather than a real thing. The image has features of life, contains human’s common feelings, and can surpass confessional poetry in its deep meanings.