Postcolonial Vision of Blake and Whitman : A Comparative Study of British and American Romanticism

尽管布莱克和惠特曼被认为是激进的浪漫主义者，但他们从未被比较过。在他们的诗歌作品中，他们同样呈现了一种乌托邦的、后殖民的世界愿景。仔细研究他们作品中使用的修辞和措辞，我已经澄清了这样的愿景被他们反殖民话语中的一些元素所干扰。布莱克创造了一个名叫阿尔比恩的主人公，他被认为是一个世界性的人。主人和奴隶、白人和黑人、欧洲人和非欧洲人之间的区别预计将随着宇宙人类的创造而消失。但阿尔比昂同时也是英格兰的代表，阿尔比昂本来就是英格兰的旧名字。因此，布莱克的S的后殖民方案包含了艾比昂配置中的矛盾元素。惠特曼在对主人公我的描绘中揭示了同样的矛盾。惠特曼的《我》与布莱克的《我》相当，他声称自己代表了所有部落和所有国家，但同时又强调了美国的优先地位，毕竟我是一个相信自己国家的S至上的美国白人男性。通过分析布莱克和惠特曼有力地呈现后殖民视野的方式以及他们的修辞和措辞如何背叛他们最初的计划，我澄清了布莱克和惠特曼之间的同质性。

Though recognized as radical romantics, Blake and Whitman have never been explored comparatively. They equally present a utopian, postcolonial vision of the world in their poetical works. Closely examining rhetoric and phrasing that are used in their works, I have clarified that such a vision is disturbed by some elements in their anti-colonial discourse.Blake created a protagonist called Albion, who is supposed to be a universal man. Distinctions between master and slave, white and black, European and non- European are expected to disappear by the creation of the universal man. But Albion is at the same time representative of England, Albion being an old name for England in the first place. Blake' s postcolonial scheme therefore embraces contradictory elements in the configuration of Albion.Whitman reveals the same kind of contradiction in his depiction of a protagonist called "I." Equivalent to Blake's Albion, Whitman's "I" claims that he is representative of all tribes and all countries but, at the same time, emphasizes a priority of America, The "I" is, after all, a white American male who believes in his own country' s supremacy.I have thus clarified homogeneity between Blake and Whitman by analyzing the way the two poets powerfully present a postcolonial vision and the way their rhetoric and phrasing betray their own initial scheme.