“不变的/是变的意志”:评查尔斯·奥尔森的投射诗《翠鸟》

“What Does Not Change/Is the Will to Change”:On Charles Olson's Projective Poem “The Kingfishers”

《翠鸟》是奥尔森早期最杰出的诗作,也是他投射诗诗学理论最成功的一次创作实验。虽然仍受庞德和艾略特的影响,但奥尔森更加注重威廉斯的诗歌风格,不仅对自己生长的故土充满信心,而且不遗余力地去挖掘美国本土的、具体的、地方性的文化内涵。本文从赫拉克利特关于唯有变才是不变的辩证法观点切入,紧扣该诗的主题"不变的/是变的意志",通过诗歌文本的深度释读,分析投射诗诗歌语言、表现形式和主题呈现的基本特征,揭示奥尔森寻求变革后现代主义时期美国诗歌的理论与实践。

＂The Kingfishers＂ is the most brilliant poem by Charles Olson in his early poetic career. It is also his most successful experiment in the theory of projective verse. Though still influenced by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, Olson was more concerned about William Carlos Williams in exploring with confidence the cultural significance of what is of the American native, the particular, and the local. From the dialectical viewpoint that only change is unchanging, this paper, with a thorough textual interpretation and a focus on the theme of the poem that ＂what does not change / is the will to change,＂ explores the characteristics of the language, ways of presentation and themes of a projective verse, thus revealing the change of poetic theory and practice that Olson attempts to brin~ to America in the Oostmodem period.