试析吴藻词中的梅花意象

在吴藻的词作中,有一个比较鲜明的特征,即她频繁地使用梅花这一意象,而这种梅花意象和她的身世、心态有着莫大的关系。透过这种梅花意象,我们可以发现,它较为集中地展现了吴藻心态演变的过程。梅花在早期偶尔被作为她的情怀点缀,或者暗自寄托着少女怀春和对现实幽怨不满的心事;中期,梅花意象开始突显出女词人内心的幽冷孤苦;到了晚期,梅花更是被女词人赋予了冰清玉洁、高雅脱俗的精神特质,与佛教因缘结合起来,使得她在后半生里抛却红尘俗念,仅以'修得到梅花'为惟一的人生追求。

There was a clear characteristic in Wu zao’s works,that is,she used the image of plum blossom frequently,and that image had great relations with her life experience.Penetrating this kind of plum blossom image,we may discover,it had unfolded strongly the process which the Wu Zaos point of view evolved.In the early time,the plum blossom was occasionally taken as embellishment of her mood,or reposes the young girl to be in love secretly with the hidden bitterness;in the intermediate stage,the plum blossom image started to appear the female poet innermost feelings which was cold and lonely;in the later period,the plum blossom was entrusted with pure and lofty characteristic by the female poet,and unified with the Buddhism cause,which caused her to throw away the desire in her latter life,only took"obtaining the plum blossom"as the only pursue.