论赫伯特诗歌的民族志书写

W.N.Herbert's Poetry and Scottish Ethnography

作为一位杰出的苏格兰诗人,赫伯特在他的作品中通过语言、风格和主题的双重性揭示了当代苏格兰诗歌和文化的复杂性。本文将赫伯特的诗歌作为当代苏格兰的民族志来予以研究,并探讨他在诗歌创作中对苏格兰性的理解。他用苏格兰语来改写英国诗歌的经典作品,并从苏格兰的视角来反思当代英国的主流文化和价值观。赫伯特将苏格兰的历史、语言和文化融入了当代英国诗歌传统,在诗歌中呈现了苏格兰的历史发展,并为当代苏格兰创造了文化符号。他的诗歌成就拓展了苏格兰语言和文化在当代英国社会的影响力。

As a prominent Scottish poet,W.N.Herbert discloses the complexity of contemporary Scottish poetry and culture through the duality in language,style,and theme of his works.This paper examines Herbert's poetry as an ethnography of contem-porary Scotland and explores his understanding of Scottishness.He rewrites classic works of British poetry in Scots and reflects on mainstream culture and values in contemporary Britain from a Scottish perspective.Incorporating the history,language,and culture of Scotland into the contemporary British poetic tradition,Herbert depicts the historical development of Scotland and creates cultural symbols for contemporary Scotland in his poetry.Herbert's achievement in poetry makes Scottish language and culture more influ-ential in contemporary Britain.