《迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚》之历史时空

亨利·华兹华斯·朗费罗是19世纪最著名的美国诗人，他的长篇叙事诗《迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚》问世后受到了英语世界的广泛赞誉。该诗以历史时空体统摄全篇，同时将历史时间具体化为自然时间和生活时间，将历史空间具体化为自然空间与生活空间。朗费罗通过频繁的时空切换展现了清教移民始祖登陆美洲后生活中的一个个侧面。其中，登陆美洲后清教移民的大量死亡、清教移民与印第安人的斗争、“五月花”号的返航等重大历史事件，以及“普利茅斯岩石”等纪念物，作为关于清教移民始祖的集体记忆的重要方面，都通过具体的时空结构得到了展现。

On the Unit of Space and Time in The Courtship of Miles Standish

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the most famous poet in America in the 19th century. The Courtship of Miles Standish is the popular poem of Longfellow, in which the unit of historical space and time leads the other units of space and time. The poem＇s historical space and time are expressed by natural and living space and time. Longfellow reveals the life of the first Puritan into America by the switching of space and time. As the most important aspects of the collective memory about the first Puritan into America, those important events, such as the half of the first Puritan into America were dead, the In＇st Puritan into America fought with Indians, and the Mayflower homeward bounded, and that landmark mementos, such as the special rock in Plymouth, are all described by the structure of space and time in The Courtship of Miles Standish.