佛洛斯特詩中寫實與浪漫的調和

The Modulation between the Realistic and Romantic Approaches to Nature and Man in Frost's Poetry

本論文藉對佛洛斯特詩作的分析應證佛氏對自然與人的寫照，既非過度浪漫也非極端寫實；而乃在二者之間不斷調和，期臻平衡。從其詩中我們可看出大自然雖冷漠無情且已萎縮，但人類猶可從自然中有所取獲。同時佛氏也意識到人類的局限，但又帶期許：希望人類能突破渺小、有限的困境。因此，儘管能力有限，但經由不斷的追求與奮鬥，人類不僅能發揚其人性光輝，且可臻止於成。

One thing special about Robert Frost's poems is that not only many of them are set in pastoral backgrounds but also most of them are full of opposites; however, these opposites, instead of being contradictory to each other, are, to a great extent, complementary in effect, and Frost keeps on modulating them. He has a strong sense of the inherent complexity and multiplicity of life. Life, like the West-Running Brook, is a continuous flux of opposites. Each situation may suggest several possible solutions, but each solution is only relative and tentative. It is never absolute, for life is multivalent and shifting. Inhabiting a pro visional and precarious world of relativity and pluralism, Frost believes that it is necessary to modulate opposites constantly because '[l]ife sways perilously at the confluence of opposing forces' (Frost, Selected Letters 467). He once remarked, 'All through I have enjoyed confusion, contrariness' (Sergeant 250), and it is 'part of his delight to discover many different processes for dealing with these conflicts' (Thompson xxii).