中西政治抒情诗对比——以北岛《回答》与艾伦·金斯堡《美国》为例

A Comparison between Chinese and Western Political Lyric Poetry--Take Answer(by Beidao)and America(by Allen Ginsberg)as Example

尽管经历了两次世界大战的洗礼,20世纪后半叶仍然是个动荡与不稳定的时代。在特定的政治文化年代里,大批文人以振聋发聩之势,或批判或怀疑或反思揭露着现实,他们的诗篇也就此打下了时代的烙印,具有浓厚的政治意识形态色彩。北岛和艾伦?金斯堡正是在这样的混沌动荡中走向文坛,痛斥着黑暗。《回答》和《美国》两诗不仅在当时震撼寰宇,它们如今仍余音绕梁。但两诗尽管是相似环境下的产物,却大相径庭,在语言表达、形式、情感基调等都存在些许不同。例如:艾伦?金斯堡的诗是激奋燃烧的疯狂,而北岛在掷地有声中又显朦胧隐晦;艾伦?金斯堡想回到过去而北岛最后在未来中发现希望等等。

Despite the sorrow we’ve endured from two world wars;the latter in half of the 20th century was still a turbulent and unstable era.In this specific political and cultural era,a large number of literati exposed and criticized the reality with the momentum of invigorating deafness,and their poems thus became a part of history and had a strong political and ideological color.It is in this chaotic turmoil that Beidao and Allen Ginsburg marched into the literary arena,denouncing the darkness.The poems Answer and America not only shocked the world at that time,but they still retain their sound today.However,although the two poems are the product of similar environ-ment,they are quite different in language expression,form,emotional tone and so on.For example,Allen's poems are burning madness,while Beidao’s works are both astounding and obscure.Or Allen wished to go back to the past and North Island finally found hope in the future.