英文摘要 |
Dai Wangshu's poetics of memory is uniquely characterized by the double reconfiguration of flowers. In an attempt to regain the ideal beauty torn by modernity and to reconstruct a new self-identity, this unique dual reconfiguration is embodied as a two-way insemination in that the physical characteristics of flowers have nurtured and stimulated the poet's poetic consciousness, and have triggered the poet's contemplation on the intersections of flowers with memory, women, sense of time, exile, dreams, butterflies, books and mourning. This figurative meditation on flowers in turn sublimates flower's transience into a transcendent plant model (herbarium) that defies sensual time, and finally the ever-empty time of modernity is redeemed by poetry , the divided self-consciousness is reshaped, and the lost historical past is reconstructed into an imagination of the future. It is this kind of floral remembrance in Dai Wangshu's poetry that has enabled the poet's double crossing in the era of the crisis of self in Chinese modernity--from self to non-self, from the other to the new self, and thus has shaped the self in modern Chinese poetry towards a higher measure of maturity. |