兰波诗学的现代性

The Modernity of Rimbaud’s Poetics

兰波从一个激进的社会变革支持者,转变为专注于诗歌的现代诗人,一步步革新法国诗歌传统,在形式上由格律诗走向散文诗,在内容上由象征走向不表达意思,最后放弃诗歌,他所走的每一步都是现代的。兰波说:“必须绝对现代”,这个“现代”对他而言,不是追赶时间,不是不断“创新”,而是要绝对进步。这个进步不仅仅是诗歌或艺术的进步,更重要的是社会的进步。诗歌的现代性必须服从社会的现代性,促进社会进步是其唯一目的,他没有违背以诗歌“改变生活”的原则,因此他是“绝对现代”的诗人。

Rimbaud turned himself from a radical supporter of social reform to a modernist poet who devoted himself to poetry,innovating the French poetic tradition step by step,shifting the form of his writing from metrical poetry to prose poetry,changing the construction of his content from symbolic to meaningless,and abandoning poetry altogether eventually.Every step he took along the way was modern.Rimbaud stated that“One must be absolutely modern”.To him,“modernity”does not mean catching up with time or even innovating constantly;instead,it means the pursuit of absolute progress.It is not just a progress in poetry or art,but,more importantly,a progress in society.The modernity of poetry must be subordinated to the modernity of society.Rimbaud sees promoting social progress as his only goal.That he never deviated from his principle of“changing life”with poetry makes him an“absolutely modern”poet.