永恒的伊甸园——莎士比亚十四行诗中的花园意象
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关键词:英语毕业论文莎士比亚十四行诗花园意象
摘要:本文是英语毕业论文,本文的结语部分总结并升华了整篇文章的主要内容和观点。花园作为莎士比亚十四行诗中反复出现的意象,不仅是诗歌叙述和修辞的手段,而且将诗中的美、时间、爱情这三大主题紧密联系起来,丰富和完善了整个诗集的叙事结构,从而使十四行诗及诗中的友人达到了永恒,折射出莎士比亚独具一格的诗学思想与美学追求。
Introduction
It is universally acknowledged that William Shakespeare is one of the mostprestigious minds of poetry and drama, shining brightly in the world literature. Hisgenius has given fresh impetus to the English Renaissance, which was highly eulogizedby his contemporaries and has tremendous influence upon every generation of writers.Ben Jonson, one of Shakespeare’s friends as well as his rivals, appreciated andanticipated his artistic brilliancy in the memorial verse of the First Folio, proclaimingthe sweet swan upon Avon as “[the] Soul of the age! / The applause, delight, the wonderof our stage.”2In the pastoral lyric L’Allegro, John Milton paid his handsome tribute toShakespeare’s untutored natural artistry and compared him to “fancy’s child” who“warble his native wood-
notes wild”. (de Grazia 268) In An
Essay of Dramatic Poesy,John Dryden equivocated about the bard Shakespeare and the esteemed Ben Jonson, andmade his distinguished confession that, though he admired Jonson for his classicalcorrectness, he loved Shakespeare for his greater wit. (139) Samuel Johnson praisedShakespeare for his giftedness in drama that “has united the powers of exciting laughterand sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition”. (14) And the Romantic poetJohn Keats took Shakespeare as his inspiring Muse so that he kept the bust of the bardbeside him while writing.3In addition, Matthew Arnold composed a sonnet entitled“Shakespeare”, stating that Shakespeare’s profound knowledge made him the “theloftiest hill / That to the stars uncrowns his majesty”.4Conspicuously, there is no suchwondrous writer of multiple dimensions and excellences as William Shakespeare thatcould earn so much encomium and exert such overwhelming influence in literary
history,as Goethe epitomized, “Shakespeare und kein Ende!”.
It is an indisputable fact that Shakespeare is a great master of drama, and when itcomes to Shakespeare, readers would perceive him primarily as a dramatist instead of apoet. Among Shakespeare’s oceanic oeuvres, it seems that his plays have a morepronounced effect on generations of scholars and critics than his sequence of sonnetsdoes. As G. Blackmore Evans reminds, however, the Sonnets have becomeShakespeare’s unprecedented best-seller and there exist a greater number ofmonographs and treatises written on the Sonnets than those on Shakespeare’s playsexcept perhaps Hamlet. (1) The flowery language gained much praise from FrancisMeres, who first recognized Shakespeare’s poetic versatility so that he selected severalscattered sonnets of Shakespeare in his anthology Palladis Tamia in which hecomplimentarily exclaimed “the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous andhoney-tongued Shakespeare”.6Shakespeare’s Sonnets, individually and collectively, areas splendid as a string of pearls which are among the most enchanting and magnificentpoems in English language. It is of no certainty that whether the Sonnets originatedfrom Shakespeare’s personal experiences or not, however, the overflow of these sonnetsdoes play a significant role in gaining an access to Shakespeare’s inner or outer world.While descriptions of abundant images show Shakespeare’s proficiency in language, hisnarrations of romantic friendship and dramatic love-triangle mark his genius inportraying the imaginative states of ordinary people, and expressions of Time’s imagesmirror his philosophical meditations upon classic motifs. Obviously, the Sonnetssequence serves like a
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