试论史蒂文斯诗中的“现实想像情结”

On Stevens' "Reality-Imagination Complex

20世纪初,美国五大巨擘之一的现代主义诗人史蒂文斯以诗为媒介思考和探索诗在生活中的作用和意义,并以深刻内省的方式将他对现实世界的哲学思考集中在他的"现实想像情结"上。史蒂文斯的世界是想像与现实以奇特的方式撞击所产生的现代童话,或者如他自己所说,是"住在象牙塔上饱览垃圾堆与广告牌景色的奇异观感"[1]。本文通过对一些有代表性的作品的赏析,探索诗人所要表达的人的想像力与客观现实的关系,以及诗是如何观照和反映现实的。

Wallace Stevens, one of the five major American modern poets in the early 20th century, contributed to pondering and exploring the function and meaning of the poetry in people's life using the poetry itself as medium. By means of deep retrospective, the poet emphasized his own philosophical thinking upon his unique 'Reality-imagination complex.' Stevens' world of life is a modern fairy tale produced by the interdependence between reality and imagination, just as what Stevens himself said,that is,'an exceptional view of the public dump and advertising signs while dwelling in an ivory tower'. This thesis analyzes some representative poems written by Stevens, in an attempt to probe the relationship between reality and imagination, discover how the poetry reflects the actual world in which the poet lives.