摘要
“空气”、“土”、“水”、“火”四大元素是古代西方宇宙起源说的构成要素。艾略特的《四个四重奏》由无意到有意以四大元素结构成组诗,借助于元素的象征意义,揭示人类在时间与现世中的生存痛苦和生存困境(永恒时间中的暂存性和生存的悲伤),思索永恒的时间及人类痛苦的解脱。何处是时间与生存的安慰?在以爱和宗教为寻求拯救的途径之外,一切都指向现在和这里,“一切始终是现在”———超验、共时与广阔的现在。
The four elements, namely, air, earth, water, and fire, are composing factors of the theory about the origin of the universe in the ancient West. T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets consists of a suite of poems structured by the four elements. By virtue of the symbolic meanings of the elements, the poem reveals the existing pains and predicaments of mankind in time and earthly world (the temporality in eternal time and the sadness of existence), contemplates eternal time and the extrication of human pains. Where is the consolation of time and existence? Besides the way of seeking salvation by love and religion, all points to now and here, ″And all is always now″—the transcendent, simultaneous and vast now.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2005年第5期97-102,共6页
Foreign Literature Studies
