革命诗人的浪漫:短暂与永恒——新批评视域下弗瑞诺《野金银花》中的悖论

Revolutionary Poet Being Romantic:Seeing the Immortal through the Mortal:Studying Freneau's Paradoxes in The Wild Honeysuckle under New Criticism Perspective

《野金银花》是美国革命诗人、“美国诗歌之父”菲利普·弗瑞诺为数不多的抒情诗歌之一。在这首四节小诗中,诗人通过对野金银花脆弱生命的描述与赞美,引发了对生命与永恒的思考。通过结构上、表达上与意象上种种悖论的有意设计与巧妙和解,诗人将诗歌的四节统一为一个有机整体,实现了诗歌象征意义的升华。《野金银花》是美国文学与文化宝库中的必读经典。从新批评的视角研究这首诗,有利于重构当代读者对诗歌语言之美的理解,同时也有利于经典作品重获现实意义。

The Wild Honeysuckle is the most read poem of Philip Freneau,Poet of the American Revolution.In this four-stanza poem,the poet contemplates on eternity through descriptions and praises of the fragile life of the honeysuckle.Via structural,expressional and imagery paradoxes,Freneau created an organic whole of the four stanzas,and achieved an uplift of the symbolic meaning of the poem.The Wild Honeysuckle is a classic work in the realm of American culture and literature.Studying the poem from a New Criticism approach helps the reconstruction of a modern reader's understanding of poetic language.It also helps this classic work to obtain a contemporary realistic significance.