“诗性真实”:安妮·塞克斯顿的自传性书写与反自传性修正

“Poetic Truth”: Anne Sexton's Autobiographical Writing and Anti-autobiographical Strategies

自白派诗歌向来被视作为自传性书写的典型,但自白派诗人塞克斯顿却在创作谈中表达了相背离的意图,即对"非自传性"的强调。本文认为,她的诗歌既是对作者经验的表现,又在自我之外呈现出多重想象,甚至发展成童话叙事的反自白诗框构。这种特殊的创作机制部分地源于诗人对"诗性真实"观的恪守:以私隐的生活经验为起点,通过虚构和投射揭示"另一重真实"。这是她对自白诗革除诗学传统、走向极端自传性的反思,也为30年后"后自白派"的纠偏补弊提供了先声。

The Confessional poetry has long been regarded as a typical case of autobiographical writing.However,Anne Sexton,as one of the major confessional poets,claims that most of her work is "non-autobiographical ". Representing author’ s own experiences on one hand,her poems are constructed through personae and masks,or even with a "transformed"structure of fairy tales on the other. Autobiographical or non-autobiographical? One of the reasons Sexton adopts this seemingly self-contradictory strategy can be found in her belief of "Poetic Truth": she determines to reveal "an another truth"in poems,which requires fictional and projective perspectives as well as autobiographic ones. In employing such strategies,Sexton contributes to modify the ideas of Confessionalism,and can be also said the forerunner of the "Postconfessional"poets some 30 years later.