灵魂之旅与语言重复——克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂悟道诗中的神秘主义美学

克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂的悟道诗历来为学界所低估。研究者认为,诗人随着信仰的加深,诗歌日益失去活力,在诗歌用语上呈现出徒劳无益的重复之风,在诗歌精神上因放弃世俗生活而产生消极遁世之感。本文从灵魂之旅的叙述结构和用语重复的风格两个层面体现出的神秘美学的角度探讨克里斯蒂娜悟道诗的价值,发现重复风格既不冗余也不消极,反而是对灵魂之旅运动节奏和基督徒生活二者内核中积极性的应和,揭示出克里斯蒂娜后期的悟道诗并非她声名远扬的早期诗作的注脚,而是其杰出诗歌成就的重要组成部分。

Christina Rossetti's devotional poetry has always been undervalued by academics,who conclude that her poetry gradually lost its vitality as she strengthened her faith,resulting in a futile repetition in the choice of words and a negative reclusiveness in the spirit of poetry due to her renunciation of worldly life.This paper explores the value of Rossetti's devotional poetry through the aesthetics of mysticism embodied in the style of repetition and the narrative structure of soul journey,finding that the repetition in style is neither redundant nor passive,but an echo of the positivity both in the motional rhythm of soul journey and in the Christian life.It thus reveals that Rossetti's later devotional poetry is not a footnote to her earlier poems which are widely read,but an important part of her outstanding achievement in poetry.