雪莱《致云雀》英文赏析
2012-03-03 15:41阅读：
The Appreciation of Shelley's ' To a
Skylark'
Shelley is a great English Romantic poet of the revolution.
According to Shelley 's memory, in 1820 July,' A beautiful summer
evening, while we were walking along a country lane in
jump myrtle shrubs which fireflies blinked, suddenly we
heared the larks warbling, I had feeling and wrote a poem, it is
one of my most beautiful poems.' The poem is' to a Skylark'.
The Skylark, such as the nightingale, once was a chant theme which
the nineteenth Century British Romantic poets liked.The great poet
's predecessors, Wordsworth,22 years older than Shelley ,who
enjoyed quite a reputation,also wrote a similar work, read the poem
of Shelley, and felt better.
This poem, with his unique artistic conception, fresh and full of
musical language, vividly depicts the lark and its song, at the
same time, also with full of passion to write his own spiritual
realm and aesthetic ideal artistic ambitions.
' To a Skylark' is another famous immortal work in the world's
lyrical art treasure , is poet's Lyric masterpiece. Poems by means
of romanticism, enthusiastically praise the lark. Under the poet's
pen, lark is a joy, bright, beautiful symbol.The poet uses the way
of metaphor, analogy and asking to depict lark. He puts the
lark as poet, as the boudoir maidens, as firefly, makes the lark's
beautiful image vividly present to readers. The poet puts the
lark's singing to compare with spring rain,wedding chorus, the song
of victory, to highlight that the lark's singing has great
strength. The rhythm of the poetry is short, light,smooth and
passionate, between the sections, it is connected and
propulsive, has great artistic appeal.
Poetry, always uses the parable. In' to a Skylark', there are total
21 sections and 105 lines of the poem, Shelley uses a lot of
parallelism. However, without a parable of excess, every parable
more plumply shape image,also more fully express his
feelings, his thoughts and emotions. The whole poem starts with
praise and endes with sigh, structure is clear,structure is
compact.
The second section is the truest section, writes the typical
movement posture that the larks sprang from the ground and typical
habits of flying with singing . Then in the description of the Lark
rising to meet the sun and with a series of happy and clear images
to infect the readers, at the same time,the readers mind are leaded
back to the song of the lark.
The fifth, sixth,and seventh sections, the poet uses stars' sword,
moon's beams,neon lowering beauty these visual images to depict
auditory's graceful feeling.
The eighth festival puts the lark as ' Poet, steales in the lights
of thought, recites impromptu rhyme, until all the sympathy are
never waked up by worry and hope',it is that he consciously commits
social missions. Then again he puts the lark's warble as young
girls to' send bitter feelings for love' and sings' a song sweet
like love', is the poet's experience.
Then using firefly's light and rose's scent to compare, again using
' the glittering and translucent and flashing grass, spring rain
falling sound,bud caming after the rain' the three dense images to
bright out three broad strong and accurate adjectives' bright,
fresh, happy' at a higher level, to make a judgment on singing's
beautiful of a lark.
Section thirteenth to fifteenth, discuss the origin of beauty, it
is noble thought and sentiment. 'Praising wedding chorus' and'
victory song' are necessarily poor, because in his view, the
traditional marriage is the component of oppressive system
, bring' triumph' of war and violence itself is' the root of all
evil'.
In section fifteenth, on relations of art and life or nature,
Shelley advocated art is thereproduction of life, beautiful
romantic flower is deeply rooted in the soil of real life.
Section sixteenth says the lark's song is sweet, because the lark'
loves,but never knows satisfying love pessimism', but not because,
such as section seventeenth said,it sees through the truth life and
death. Along with the following three sections, the sction reflects
the common features of Romantic Poetry: Ode nature and opposite
human social evils and misfortunes of people. The twentieth section
further generalizates the lark's wonderful singing , and reveales:
superb artistic skills, are only used by masters who 'despise
dust'. 'Despising dust' not only show the lark spring from
ground, but also means to get rid of the bonds of vulgar,
stereotypical ideas and affection.
The whole poem uses lots of simile and metaphor to depict the
lark's song,at the same time, creates a symbol, an ideal artistic
image of the master.
Twenty-first section in' To a Skylark', each verse consists of four
iambic tetrameter three lines and a six foot of iambic lines, the
rhyme scheme is ABABB,this is the four short and long design,
simulates lark always towing a long sound music after a short song
and.
' To a Skylark' as the model that content and form perfectly
unite,can be called fresh and elegance, extraordinary. The famous
scholar Yang Zhouhan once exclaimed:' Poet not only deeply observes
the actual situation now, finds the existing things should comply
with the law, but also observes from the now to the future.'
