焦虑的帝国号手──吉卜林诗歌作品分析

The Anxious Trumpeter of the Empire: an Interpreting of Kipling's Poems

英国作家吉卜林的诗集《营房谣》(1892)、《七海》(1896)等以豪迈风趣的笔调讴歌了英国军队在海外殖民地的征战,为诗人赢得了"帝国号手"的称号;结合历史背景分析《七海》中的诗歌,发现豪迈的诗歌下方隐藏着吉卜林对当时大英帝国时局的焦虑和他对海外出生的新生殖民者的期望。

Rudyard Kipling was famous for using heroic wits to eulogize the British soldiers fighting overseas in his poems such as those collected in Barrack-Room Ballads The Seven Seas. Thus, these poems won him the title of a Trumpeter of the British Empire. However, when we interpret his poems by putting them in the domestic and international background at the time they were written, we can find Kipling＇s anxieties for the fading Empire and his expectations placed on the new-generation of British colonizers who were born overseas.