才子之文——论易顺鼎辞赋骈文的情感特质、风格及其成因

Articles of the Talented:On Emotion Characteristics,Style and Their Causes of Fu and Parallel Prose by Yi Shunding

易顺鼎的辞赋、骈文给人印象最深的是那些感伤生命殒逝、抒写"绮情"与悲悼理想破灭的篇章。其前期骈文,在遣字、用典、对偶等方面,刻意求新、求僻、求巧,后期骈文则鲜用僻典,句法灵活,较少雕琢,体现出由"古奥"向"寻常"的转变。易顺鼎的诗文,形式技巧上表现出对"经典"的别样推进(主要是骈文和近体格律诗)与对"经典"的肆意破坏(主要是晚年的歌行体古诗),题材内容上表现为言人所不敢言、所不屑言,格调上表现为偏好哀婉感伤。这与其忧郁与痴狂"二极组合"的多重人格有关。易顺鼎以"善作才语"成为清末民初文坛之"怪杰"。

The most impressive parts of Fu and parallel prose by Yi Shunding are those that describe the "a wonderful feeling",and express the sadness of the passing of life and the mourning of disillusionment. In his early years,the parallel prose deliberately sought novelty,unpredictability and cleverness in the aspects of words,allusions and antithesis. But in his later parallel prose,uncommon allusions were rarely used,and its syntax was flexible and less elaborated,which reflected the transformation from"uncommon"to"common". In terms of form and technique,Yi Shunding’s poems and prose show the special promotion of"classics"(mainly parallel prose and metrical poetry) and the wantonly destruction of"classics"(mainly in song-form ancient poems in his later years). In terms of theme and content,his poems express what no one else dares or disdains to say. With regard to style,his poetry prefer to pathos and sentiment. All these are associated with the multiple personality of melancholy and madness. Because of his "good works and outstanding talent",Yi Shunding became a"wizard"in the literary world in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.