惠特曼和狄金森诗作中的永生主题解读_英语论文

The Interpretation of “Immortality” in Walt Whitman’s and Emily Dickinson’s Poetry  

摘要

沃尔特·惠特曼与艾米莉·狄金森，是两位最著名的美国诗人。由于在诗歌创作上的杰出贡献，他们的名字被一同最先刻在纽约市圣约翰大教堂的“美国诗人之角”。他们是并驾齐驱的美国现代派诗歌先驱,上承浪漫主义余绪，在部分作品中的表现毋庸讳言；下开现代主义先河，已经得到一致公认。在写作技巧上，两人都积极响应美国的文学独立运动，抛弃了传统的五步抑扬格，创造出一种前所未有的形式。尽管生活在同一时代，且同为传统诗歌革新者，惠特曼与狄金森所作生死主题的诗歌风格与看法却迥异。惠特曼以豪迈大气的风格歌唱生死，认为生死是平等幸福、循环往复的自然进程；狄金森却以浅吟低唱的内省风格见长，她笔下的生死痛苦却无限美好，因为唯有经历生之孤独痛苦，才能获得生之丰饶欢乐，唯有经历死亡之痛，才能走向永生。

关键词：惠特曼；狄金森；诗歌；永生

Abstract

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, are two of the most famous poets in America. Because of their outstanding contributions to poetry, their names are engraved in “American Poets’ corner” in the Cathedral of St. John in New York city. They are pioneers of American modern poetry. It is widely recognized that they inherited the characteristics of romanticism and created a precedent of modernism. In the writing skills, they responded positively to the literary independence USA, abandoned the traditional five step iambic, and created a new form. While living at the same time, and as traditional poetry innovators, their poetic styles and views about the theme of life and death are different. Whitman tends to sing high praise for life and death, and he thinks it a natural process; but to Dickinson life and death are painful but beautiful, because only when you experience the loneliness of life can you find its beauty, and only when you experience the pain of death can you walk to immortality.

Key words: Whitman  Dickinson  poetry  immortality