凯·瑞安诗歌中的“老调新谈”

Rehabilitation of Clichés in Kay Ryan's Poetry

被称为"当代狄金森"、荣膺2011年普利策诗歌奖、2012年度"国家人文奖章"的美国诗人凯·瑞安认为诗歌多为游戏,倡议以一种游戏式的姿态建构诗歌,在一种貌似游戏娱乐的轻松氛围中作出思想的审视和批判。她的诗歌蕴含了当代知识分子的游戏精神。本文主要借助游戏批评,兼容日常生活批判视角审视诗歌中习语的"老调新谈"游戏主题,探讨瑞安如何从最平凡、最俗套的习语引入富有哲理性的思考,探讨当代知识分子在主流文化圈外寻求自我的独特艺术,从而揭示诗人对历史、社会、人生等诸多方面游戏元素的思考和强烈情感的表达。

Kay Ryan, the sixteenth poet laureate of the United States from 2008 through 2010, is often compared to Emily Dickinson for being an ＂outsider＂ to mainstream poetry circles. For Ryan, poetry is a form of superior entertainment and it is those funny elements that animate poetry. Ryan＇s poems revisit clichés or idiomatic expressions by examining their beauty and mining the cracks in common human experiences. This article explores Ryan＇s playful art of rehabilitating clichés in her poetry and, by probing into such poems, examines the playfulness of contemporary intellectuals.