摘要
(一) 什么是现代西方文学中的“形象”(image,亦译“意象”)?,在回答这个问题之前,我们不妨先来阅读一首小诗《地铁车站》,看看英美现代派诗歌的奠基人之一、意象派运动的倡导者艾兹拉·庞德(Ezra Pound,1885—1972)是如何运用形象或意象的:
An image, as Ezra Pound suggests, is that, which presents an intellectual and emotional com-plex in an instant of time. It aims at suggesting or evoking a picture in the reader's mind ratherthan offering a complete statement. The chief function of the use of images is to render com-plex, abstract experience in vivid, concrete terms. Imagery consists in all the images taken togetherin a work of literature. Often the meaning of a poem does not lie in separate images but in theinterplay and interrelation of images. In fiction, where images are less conspicuous and more sporadic, imagery acquires special signi-ficance through re-iterated use. In the works of some modern authors, parallels are drawn betweennatural environment and the mind of the character, thus lifting nature into active association withthe mysterious workings of consciousness. In the mean time, imagery associated with machineryhas intruded into much of British and American fiction, often used as a means of revealing thedehumanization characteristic of the modern western world.
出处
《外语教学与研究》
1984年第3期27-34,共8页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
