隐秘的自况——《老水手行》旁注者身份探析  

A Covert Confessor:An Inquiry into the Identity of the Gloss Writer of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

作　　者：梅申友[1] MEI Shenyou

机构地区：[1]北京大学外国语学院

出　　处：《国外文学》2022年第1期96-107,共12页Foreign Literatures

摘　　要：1817版《老水手行》的旁注者长期被认为是一个迥异于诗人本人、备受嘲讽的虚构形象。本文首先聚焦于最重要的几则旁注,结合柯勒律治的写作习惯、阅读主张和哲学宗教观,认为旁注者跟爱写旁注的诗人本人十分相似:看重理性分析,也强调想象认同;博学好古,但并不迂执盲信;是柏拉图主义的拥趸,同时也是从未背离上帝的基督徒。进一步考察诗歌正文和诗人在1817年之前的经历,我们会发现诗人坎坷的人生经历让他对老水手产生了体认,而老水手这个人物形象在酝酿之初就有诗人自己的影子。旁注看似只是在给诗歌正文提供阅读指导,却在不经意间透露了诗人隐秘的心声。The writer of the marginal glosses of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(1817) has long been held as an imaginary and ironized editor, totally different from the poet. This essay focuses on a few key glosses and argues that the purported writer is strikingly similar to Coleridge in their preference for antiquarian books, equal emphasis on reason and empathy, as well as their unperturbed subscription to Platonism and Christianity. An investigation into the verse text and Coleridge’s life experiences before 1817 reveals the lonely and depressed poet’s striking resemblance to and hidden affinity for the penitent protagonist. Coleridge wrote the glosses to make the poem more intelligible, while unwittingly, betraying his tormented soul not unlike that of the ancient mariner.

关 键 词：柯勒律治 《老水手行》 旁注 

分 类 号：I561.072[文学—其他各国文学]