观亦幻:约翰·阿什伯利诗歌的绘画维度

Vision is Illusion:The Painterly Dimension in John Ashbery's Poetry

美国当代诗人约翰·阿什伯利把对现实的思考建基于对艺术世界的沉思上。他的诗很难带有非个人化、政治化、情感化的倾向,很多诗都是艺术化的结果,其中尤以绘画为重。他的诗歌创作与绘画犹如孪生,水乳交融,但并不止于对绘画形式天真般的模仿,而是超越了模仿,展示出与绘画相似的审美意境,其中隐藏着从抽象表现主义画派提取的对无意识的追寻,文本表面的视觉性实为无意识幻觉的呈现,直接指向现实中意义的破碎和主体性的丧失。

Contemporary American Poet John Ashbery bases his consideration of the reality on his meditation on the art world. His poetry is mostly art-oriented, which is largely related with paintings, instead of taking impersonality, politics and emotion as its end. However, he does not totally depend on the mimetic tradition in that his poetry transcends the mimesis, presenting less the visual engagement with paintings than the illusionary encounter with them, an aesthetic principle instilled from the Abstract Expressionist paintings. In this way, his poetry entails an interplay of vision and illusion, in which the vision surfaced exteriorly underlies the illusion captured interiorly, pointin~ to the uncertainty of meanin~ and the loss of subiectivitv.