Robert Browning's Poetry of Loss "Prospice" and "To Edward Fitzgerald"

羅伯•布朗寧的哀喪詩兩首：〈期待〉與〈致愛德華•費茲傑羅〉

10.30095/SYJH.200606.0007

Philip Edward Phillips

期待 ； 致愛德華•費茲傑羅 ； 羅伯•布朗寧 ； 維多利亞時期詩歌 ； 輓詩 ； Prospice ； To Edward FitzGerald ； Robert Browning ； Elizabeth Barrett Browning ； Edward FitzGerald ； Victorian poetry ； elegy

中山人文學報

22期（2006 / 06 / 01）

135 - 146

英文

本文主要專注在布朗寧的〈期待〉與〈致愛德華•費茲傑羅〉。二詩是為平撫失去妻子伊麗莎白•巴雷特•布朗寧的傷痛所寫。這兩首詩以輓歌的形式寫成，分別助長與悖離古典傳統；〈期待〉刻劃維多利亞時期男子面對困難時以堅韌的表現來平息哀傷，而布朗寧在〈致愛德華•費茲傑羅〉中則以惡言惡語來責怪費茲傑羅的言語傷害了布朗寧對摯愛的回憶。藉著分析此二詩，筆者提供新的面向來觀看布朗寧詩中非同尋常的主觀聲音，並且檢視它們在輓歌傳中的獨特位置。

This paper focuses upon two poems by Robert Browning, ”Prospice” and ”To Edward FitzGerald,” in which the poet attempts to come to terms with the death of his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Elegiac in form, the poems uniquely contribute to and diverge from the classical tradition in their respective appeals to Victorian masculine fortitude to assuage grief in ”Prospice” and to the harsh language of diatribe to right a wrong perpetrated against the memory of the beloved in ”To Edward Fitzgerald.” The analysis of these two poems provides a fresh glimpse into Robert Browning's uncharacteristically subjective poetic voice and examines their unique place within the elegiac tradition.

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