丝蒂薇·史密斯诗歌艺术特色与主题研究

A study on the poetic style and themes of Stevie Smith's poetry

丝蒂薇·史密斯是20世纪上半叶英国风格迥异的女诗人。她的诗歌语言简单、轻松、幽默且充满稚气,常以童话入诗,所配的插图多为涂鸦式的简笔画,然而这些貌似轻松的形式背后却常常隐含着庄重而严肃的主题。女诗人的艺术追求与孤独的创作常态往往随意地以调侃的形式再现在诗中;诗人矛盾的宗教信仰常以耳熟能详的童话、上帝自述和稚子童言等形式反映出来;即使连死亡这个凝重的话题也极少有沉重的意味,更添几许期许与希望。

Stevie Smith, born in the early 20th century, was a British woman poet with distinctive poetic style. Her language is often simple, light-hearted and childlike with parody on some wellknown fairy tales, and her illustrations to many poems are just childlike doodlings. But behind all these seemingly casual forms are some very solemn and serious contents: the artistic pursuit of a women poet and her solitude, religious belief and the theme of death and escape, which make up the three major themes in Stevie Smith's poetry. She mocks at the solitude of women artists, teases at her ambivalence in religion by rewriting fairy tales or imitating God's speech or baby talk and enjoys herself with the theme of death by treating it as a friend and a hope.