寻求匀称与均齐之美——闻一多以“音尺”为基础的新诗格律试验

Seeking the Beauty of Symmetry:Wen Yiduo’s Metric Experiments of Modern Chinese Poetry

时世的移易和文学语言的转换带给中国诗歌脱胎换骨的改变,旧的艺术秩序被打破,新的尚远未形成,服膺唯美主义思想的闻一多,将一部分新诗作品在艺术上的粗率,直接归咎于自由诗的滥觞,试图将英诗的声律单位"音尺"移植到中国新诗的写作中,以推动新诗的格律化、实现诗的音乐美和建筑美,但终究应者寥寥,他的一些尝试性作品也未能达到他本人预期的艺术效果。重建中国诗歌形式规范的路虽没能走通,却促进了观念的嬗变,使得闻一多的艺术思想最终走向成熟。

The change of the time and the transformation of literary language brought radical change to Chinese poetry, the old artistic order was broken, and the new one was far from being formed. Wen Yiduo, who would like to serve the idea of aestheticism, imputed artistic roughness of the new poetry works directly to the beginning of free verse. He tried hard to transplant the rhythm unit "Sound Gauge" of English poetry into modern Chinese poetry, but finally failed to achieve the expected artistic effect. Although his metric experiments of modern Chinese poetry appeared to be unsuccessful, it still had promoted the change of concept, which made the artistic thought of Wen Yiduo do finally mature.