英文摘要 |
Rooted in Taiwan, Li Kui-xian is a poet with global vision. In addition to winning various awards at home and abroad, he was nominated three times by the Poetry International (India) for Nobel Laureate of Literature in 2002, 2004, and 2006 respectively. Among Li's poems, there is a rather special category—prose poems, of which there is only a very limited number. Reading his collection of poems closely, we can find that he has only written 7 prose poems since 1953, which are: 'Dusk on the Bridge,' 'Nocturne of Early Summer,' 'The Memory of Autumn and Death'—a series of three poems, 'Grasp the Drumbeats,' 'The Life of a Top,' 'The End of a Hero,' and 'Humid and Simple Room'. Among his 1152 works, it is a very small number. Different from any single genre, prose poems have unique charm and artistic value, and therefore are highly acclaimed by international poets and critics, such as Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Rabindranath Tagore, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Rainer Maria Rilke, who have published a few volumes of prose poems. Once, Li mentioned that there were plenty of rooms for the composition of prose poem in Taiwan. Therefore, this essay aims at discussing the 7 prose poems written by Li Kui-xian to examine the aesthetic features of the combination of prose and poem. In addition to discussing the lyrical images among the loosely arranged lines, it attempts to highlight the transgression of the boundary of genre, i.e. the usage of novel techniques in prose poem to represent dramatic effects. Regarding the theme, different from the social criticism found in most of his poems written in the traditional lined format, he focuses on the pondering of self, life and philosophy in his prose poems. Simply speaking, this essay probes into the themes and features that are different from the rest of Li's poems written in the traditional lined format. |