波德莱尔对主流的消解及重构——《恶之花》的另一种解读

Baudelaire's Dissolution and Reconstruction of the Mainstream of Poetic Aesthetic--A Different Interpretation of The Flower of Evil

波德莱尔处于浪漫主义退潮期,必须开拓新的诗歌领域。其名播遐迩的诗集《恶之花》用梦魇般的笔调描写荒诞社会造成的忧郁、变态人性和绝望的沉沦,使诗集呈现出对于传统文化与价值观念的颠覆,而情诗的一些主题尤其显示出诗人对主流文学歌咏的圣母型女性形象的反叛,从而对古典诗的理想化的审美准则进行消解,并重构了新的价值体系和美学观念,即"恶之美"。

Baudelaire lived in a period of time when romanticism was on the ebb and new fields of poetry were cried for. The Flower of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal), his well known poetry anthology, displays its opposition of the traditional culture and values via its nightmarish depiction of the doleful and abnormal humanity and the desperate degradation caused by absurdity of the society. Certain themes of its love poems particularly reveal the poet's counteraction against the Virgin Mary image of women, of which the mainstream literature was in praise. By doing so, Baudelaire has successfully dissolved the idealistic aesthetical principles of classical poetry and constructed a new system of values and conception of aesthetics, namely, the 'Beauty of Evil'.