现代诗歌的乡愁——对余光中诗歌“古典文学DNA”的检测与分析

Homesickness of Modern Poetry——Examination and Analysis of the Classical DNA in Yu Guangzhong's Poems

余光中是著名的乡愁诗人,他的乡愁是超越地理空间的,是一种文化孺慕和历史归属感,这使得他也将中国古典文学锁定为寄托乡愁的对象。自20世纪60年代发出"回归古典"的宣告之后,余光中便不断地探索古今文学的关系。在诗学理论方面,他将现代诗歌所内蕴的中西矛盾转化成古今文学的问题,提出中国古典文学是"大传统",中国现代诗、甚至是中国现代文艺的未来道路应该是在经受西方洗礼之后,走回传统,用现代精神融汇古典素材,创造一个"新的活的传统"。在诗歌创作方面,余光中通过多种方式,充分利用中国传统文学资源,形成了"有我中华文化独特的芬芳"的诗歌风格,为现代诗歌如何继承并发展古典文学传统提供了很好的示范。

Yu Guangzhong is well-known as a'homesickness poet'. His homesickness is not only territorial, but also is a sense of culture and history. Thus, he loves Chinese ancient poetry on which he places his homesickness.Since Yu Guangzhong announced that modern poetry should return to Chinese classics in 1960 s, he has been constantly exploring the relationship between ancient and modern Chinese literature. As for poetry theory, he believes Chinese classics is 'a big tradition', and after modern poetry and other arts have used the experience of western countries for reference, they all should return to Chinese classics and mix western experience and Chinese classics together to create 'a new tradition'. As for poetry creation, this belief promotes developing Yu Guangzhong's own style. This article attempts to explain the methods of Yu Guangzhong's modern poems using Chinese classics. At last,it will show how modern poems have inherited form ancient legacy.