What Is the Use of Poetry
What Is the Use of Poetry
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诗有什么用
DOI：
10.1080/00098655.1958.11476148
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1958
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Allan G. Burt
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作者：
Allan G. Burt
那位女士问济慈是否帮助拯救了灵魂，如果她知道的话，她会回答：“济慈帮助使灵魂值得拯救。”要用固定的术语来定义诗歌的用法是不可能的，因为我们要记住，诗歌所体现和传达的经验是存在于生命本身的绝对价值范围内的。华兹华斯的那句“不朽的暗示”暗示了诗歌对热心读者的那种价值。但是，诗歌的矛盾之处，以及真正意义上的魔力，就在于只有凡人才能领会它。戈登·波顿利在他的小诗《兰提斯》中表达了这种想法。诗歌的主体，他说
The lady who asked whether Keats helped to save the soul was put inher place, had she known it, by the retort:" Keats helps to make the soul worth sav¬ ing." To define the use of poetry in set terms is impossible when we remember that the experience it embodies and com¬ municates is something that lies in the region of those absolute values which be¬ long to life itself. Wordsworth's phrase," intimations of immortality," suggests the kind of value thatpoetry can have for an ardent reader. But the paradox, and in a real sense the magic, of poetry consists in the fact that man must be mortal to appre¬ hend it. This thought is expressed by Gordon Bottomley in his little poem" At¬ lantis." The body of poetry, he says: