爱默生与美国诗歌传统

爱默生主张抛弃经验,凭借直觉去感受世界和追求真理。他坚信自然是人类精神世界的物质外化,是个象征体系。诗人是见者、言者、先知和语言创造者,是个代表性的人物,因此惟有诗人才能刻画自然并揭示真理。本文旨在考察爱默生超验主义诗学理论所包含的代表性人物、智性感受、化石的诗歌和催生韵律的主题等四个基本要素在惠特曼、弗罗斯特、庞德、奥尔森等现当代重要美国诗人诗歌创作中的体现,进而揭示爱默生对构建美国诗歌传统的贡献。

Emerson and the American Poetic Tradition

Emerson believes that people understand the true meaning of life through intuition rather than experience,because nature is a symbolic system of an externalized world of the mind.A poet is a seer,a sayer,a prophet,a language maker and a representative man.Only a poet,therefore,can depict the world and tell the truth.Such Emersonian transcendentalist elements of a poet as being representative,enjoying intellectual perception,creatingfossil poetryand makingmeter-making arguments]in the poetry of Walt Whitman...