古希腊罗马神话对雪莱诗歌的影响探析

Influence of the Greek and Roman Mythology on Shelley's Poems

古希腊罗马神话,作为希腊最早的文学形式,反映出希腊人对外在自然和人类内在的观察、探索和解释,展现出希腊人特有的观察和思维模式。了解希腊神话是欣赏和理解欧美文学的基础。比如在英国文学历史上的浪漫主义时期,浪漫主义作家们经常在作品中大量引用古希腊罗马神话中的人物故事来抒发自己内心的情怀。诗人雪莱,作为浪漫主义的代表作家,是希腊文化的崇拜者和阐释者,用生命感触着希腊神话的内在精神。通过探讨古希腊罗马神话对于雪莱的两篇代表作《西风颂》和《解放了的普罗米修斯》的影响,从而发现了神话使得雪莱的诗歌更具魅力;另一方面又反映出他的诗歌对古希腊罗马神话的继承和发展。

The Greek and Roman mythology,as one of the earliest forms of literature,reflects the observation,the exploration and the explanation of ancient Greek people towards the exterior nature and the interior human minds. Moreover,it shows the unique observation model and thinking model of ancient Greek people.Meanwhile,knowing the Greek and Roman mythology is the foundation of appreciating and understanding the western literature. For instance,in the Romantic period of English literature,Romantic poets employed a lot of figures and stories in the Greek and Roman mythology in order to express their own feelings. English Romantic poet,Percy Bysshe Shelley who used his whole life to feel the inner spirit,is the adorer and expositor of the Greek and Roman mythology. In this paper,Shelley＇s Ode to the West Wind and Prometheus unbound were chosen to explore the influence of the Greek and Roman mythology on the poetry of Shelley. On one hand,the ancient Greek and Roman mythology makes the poems of Shelley more charming. On the other hand,the poems reflect a kind of inheriting and developing of the ancient Greek and Roman mythology.