《雅歌》美学论

An Aesthetic Review of Song of Songs

《雅歌》的作者是或不是所罗门或许无伤大雅,但是对于《雅歌》进入正典,或许是一重要考量因素。《雅歌》的美学内涵固然可以引申出许多象外之意,但很显然美在这里与那一种带几分罪衍感,而且是险象环生的虚幻价值已经毫无干系,它甚至不是依附神的光辉,迂回曲折地登堂入室,而具有从感官到精神的一切引人向往的魅力。身体的母题由此在《雅歌》中凸显出来,被认为可表征出自我与世界、世界与自我之间的关系,而成为隐喻的焦点,各式不同术语的结合部。作为《旧约》中无一语提到上帝的独特爱情诗篇,从最初的单独情歌到汇成整体的"歌中之歌",从起初的分散情节和情景发展到跌宕起伏的半梦半醒叙事,《雅歌》本身的这一进路,考究起来,当同样是充满了美学意味。

Solomon is or is not the author of Song of Songs may not matter for the poem's aesthetic value.But it does matter for its permission into the canon.Among various aesthetic implications of Song of Songs,beauty remains a constant theme covered all sensual as well as spiritual pleasures which no long link with dangerous illusion in the biblical context,or no longer need to plea to a divine light.Thus the motif of body manifested in the poem becomes the representation of the relationship between self and world,the focus of metaphors,and the combination of different terms.As a unique love poem in the Old Testament without any words mentioned the God,the evolution of Song of Songs,i.e.,how the fragment lyrics concentrated into the integrated poem,is also a glorious route full of aesthetic significance.