但丁·罗塞蒂与王维诗歌的中西文化差异探析

Exploration on culture differences between China and Western countries in poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Wang Wei

但丁·罗塞蒂与王维是中英文学史上的两朵奇葩。他们的都是著名的诗画家,其诗歌都具有诗中有画的特点,然而又在主题、表达方式、自然观、宗教色彩等方面存在巨大差异。罗塞蒂诗注重个体感受,王维诗更注重人伦关系。罗塞蒂的诗歌语言描写细致,而王维更讲求言外之意。罗塞蒂的回归自然追求"我"的彰显,即回归于人的"动物性",如动物般任性率真;而王维的回归自然是追求"我"的泯灭,即回归于人的"植物性",如植物般无悲无喜。罗塞蒂将幸福寄托于天国,而王维则崇尚现世解脱。

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Wang Wei were the two distinguished poets in Chinese and British literary history respectively. They were both poet-and-painter-in-one, thus both of their poems presented the characteristics of paintings. However, their poems had tremendous differences in themes, means of expression, views on nature and religious implication, etc. Dante Gabriel Rossetti valued individual feelings, while Wang Wei emphasized human relations. Dante Gabriel Rossetti tried to describe everything exactly in words, while Wang Wei strove for the world beyond words. Dante Gabriel Rossetti valued the demonstration of ＂individual＂ when returning to the nature, i.e. returned to the ＂animal nature＂ of humans and tried to be capricious and frank like animals. While Wang Wei stressed the vanishing of ＂individual＂ when returning to the nature, i.e. returned to the ＂plant nature＂ of humans and tried to be no sorrow and no joy like plants. Dante Gabriel Rossetti anchored his hope of happiness on afterlife, while Wang Wei advocated the redemption in this world.