浅谈约翰邓恩的意象研究(英文)

Abstract: In recent years, people pay much attention on John Donne's poetry, this paper attempts to discuss his poems from the aspect of images by meticulously analyzing many fresh examples. John Donne is the founder of Metaphysics. With its high profile and academic enrichment of imagery, he dramatically describes his thinking of the world. He puts forward images to describe love and death, holding the idea that image reflects his unique thinking about the different social phenomena in England of that time and his inner world which is full of contradiction. This paper first introduces the definition of an image and the uses of image, and then introduces the life of John Donne, his major works, and the influence he brought to the world. Finally, this paper analyzes the major images in his major poems, including circle image, flea image and compasses image. The research is of great significance to images in poems.

Key words: John Donne; Image; Circle image

摘  要：最近几年，国际上对邓恩的诗歌研究掀起了一股浪潮，本文收集例证就邓恩诗歌中的意象进行研究。约翰.邓恩是玄学派诗歌的创始人，它用高度概况浓缩的意象和学术化的比喻描述戏剧性的主题思想。他将意象用在描写爱情与死亡时，反映了使人对当时英国各种社会现象的独特思考和它本人充满矛盾的内心世界。本文从意象入手，首先介绍意象的定义和意象是怎样创造的。其次介绍邓恩的生平遭遇，其主要作品其中以及他带给世人的影响，最后介绍主要作品中的意象应用，包括圆形意象，圆规意象以及跳蚤意象。本研究对诗歌意象具有启示作用。

关键词：约翰邓恩; 意象; 圆形意象

Introduction
John Donne, the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry, was unique and singular at using geometry knowledge and imagery, particularly the triangle image and the circle image, using the circle image in describing love and death. In his poetry, sensuality is blended with philosophy, passion with intellect, and contraries are ever moving one into the other. Donne holds the idea that circle images reflected his unique thinking about the different social phenomena in England of that time and his inner world which is full of contradiction. Most of his poems contained either cynical comments on the inconstancy of women in love or fiery utterance of unruly passion mixed with coarse suggestion of sensual love and morbid thoughts of death, and we may find in them almost always rather complicated reasoning through far fetched comparisons or conceits and in strange imageries and obscure. This paper first introduces the definition of image, the uses of image, and then introduces the life of John Donne, his major works and the influence he brought to the world. Finally, this paper analyzes the major images in his poems, including circle image, flea image, and compasses images.

1  Introduction of image
What is an image? The most widely used definition of an image is: “An Image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time."[1]But this definition from Pound has a history to it. Before Pound outlined his definition, the image was seen very differently by most people. Therefore, the question "what is an image?" immediately breaks down into three fundamental parts: Where do images come from? Once an image is created, what is it? How can an image function in a poem? Before we answer these questions, we'll want to discuss some terms related to image so that we can use them in our answers.
1. 1 Definition of image
An Image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. But this definition from Pound has a history to it. Before Pound outlined his definition, the image was seen very differently by most people. Therefore, the question “what is an image?” immediately breaks down into three fundamental parts: Where do images come from? Once an image is created, what is it? How can an image function in a poem? Before we answer these questions, we’ll want to discuss some terms related to image so that we can use them in our answers. The category of which are all images, as varied and lively as they are, fall into. “Imagery is best defined as the total sensory suggestion of poetry.”[2]The mental laboratory used for the creation of images and new ideas. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership, imagination is not, as its etymology would suggest, the faculty of forming images of reality; it is rather the faculty of forming images which go beyond reality, which sing reality. The image is often seen, after it has been written, as being one of two things. It is either something that represents a thing in the “real” world, or it is seen as its own thing, divorced from the burden of representing anything other than itself. Again, it is the latter definition that has come into more common use. As many philosophers have recently shown, written language is more than simply representational. This means that the image, rather than being something that stands in for something else, is seen as something in and of itself，tied to the things of the world, but not burdened by “representing them directly”. In Pound's definition, the image is not just a stand in for something else; it is a putting-into-word of the emotional, intellectual and concrete stuff that we experience in any given moment. It is also important to note that an image in poetry, contrary to popular belief, is not simply visual. It can engage any of the senses. And, in fact, for it to be an image, it must engage at least one of the senses by using sensory detail.转贴于 酷文网-论文下载中心 http://www.coolwen.net