时代与抒情:中国现代新旧诗体功能之争及其诗学意义

Lyricism and the Age: The Debate over the Function of the New and the Old Poetic Forms and Its Significance in the Modern China

反映一时代的社会政治,是新文学兴起的重要目的,但新诗在涉及此类题材时,却有一个更为重要的"抒情"问题。鉴于新旧二体优劣之争成为新文化运动以来中国诗学最大的议题,本文从五四前后对"诗与时代"关系的讨论入手,分析新旧诗体在抒情功能上存在的差异、成因及影响,重新认识它们在新文化运动以来各自的作用与地位,弥补中国现代文学史只论新诗不谈旧诗之缺憾,论证旧诗人的诗观与诗作对于融合中西的现代诗学具有不可低估的价值。

An important goal of the New Literature is to reflect the social politics of the age, while lyricism is also an issue for the New Poetry. The debate over the merits of the new and old forms is one of the key issues in the New Culture Movement. Putting the debate into the perspective of the relation between poetry and the age, the paper approaches the issue by examining the differences between the function of lyricism pertaining to the new and old forms of poetry, the reason behind the forms and the influence of the choices on the forms, and it tries to reevaluate the contribution and significance of the poetics based on the old form of Chinese poetry.