| 英文摘要 |
A meaningful investigation into formal allegory should begin with the question: what has 'allegory' generally meant as applied to a literary text? Aiming at some degree of universality, we deliberately want to begin by tracing how a reader trained in the Anglo-American tradition will possibly respond to a French poem in which 'allegory' functions as one of the informing factors. Baudelaire's 'Un Voyage à Cythère' (A Voyage to Cytherea) is noted for its patterned contrasts, a structural trait conspicuous from the very first two stanzas and running through the whole poem. The first stanza tells us that the heart of the I-narrator, who is on a sea voyage, 'as a bird, hovered joyfully/And soared carefreely around the rigging.' The second stanza begins with a line that signais an abrupt change in mood: 'What is this isle sad and dark? -- It is Cytherea.' In the subsequent four stanzas the narrator's reverie poses the romantic association about this land of Venus as internalized in the Western consciousness agah1st the brutal fact that Cytherea is actually 'a rocky wasteland troubled by bitter cries.' In Stanzas 7－10, the narrator relates to us an obnoxious scene of mutilation which he witnesses as his ship gets close to the island. He sees a corpse hanging from a three-branched gallows being devoured by a swami of relentless birds and beasts. |
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