无助者的影响力——从《坎伯兰的老乞丐》分析华兹华斯浪漫主义洞见

The Power of the Helpless On Wordsworth’s Romantic Insight from“The Old Cumberland Beggar”

从追随法国大革命和葛德汶的社会理念中大病一场之后,英国浪漫主义诗人华兹华斯回到家乡,从平凡百姓生活中倾听到人间悲曲,从而找到诗歌的主题,描写一系列卑微人群的苦难生活,其中《坎伯兰的老乞丐》最具有华兹华斯风格。无助的老乞丐具有非凡的影响力,他不但能唤起人们的怜悯之心,促进爱心的传播,让施善者提升德行,让传统习俗得以保存,让诗人获得人与自然的神圣融合的浪漫主义洞见。

After a strong disease from following the French revolution and Godwin s social ideas,William Wordsworth went back home and heard the sad music of humanity from the ordinary people s life and found his poetic themes.He described a series of the miserable life of the mean people,of which“The Old Cumberland Beggar”is the most Wordsworthian.The helpless old beggar has an unusual power.He not only called up people s sympathy,promoted the spread of concern and love,raised the virtue of the benefactor,kept the traditional custom,but also gave the poet a romantic insight of the divine relationship between man and nature.