A Dialectical Love between Nature and Mind: An Ecofeminist Reading of Wordsworth's Poetry

自然與心靈間互啓相詰的愛：華茲華斯詩作之一種生態女性主義的解讀

10.6420/DHJHS.200507.0187

郭慧珍(Gwendolin Huey-Jen Kuo)

自然 ； 心靈 ； 想像力 ； 華茲華斯 ； 生態女性主義 ； Nature ； mind ； imagination ； Wordsworth ； ecofeminism

東華人文學報

7期（2005 / 07 / 01）

187 - 222

英文

作爲英國浪漫時期經典詩人，華茲華斯是書寫自然的重要人物。不過早在六零年代Harold Bloom、Geoffrey H. Hartman及Paul de Man就曾提出想像力在華氏詩中享有與自然同等或更重要的地位。華氏對自然與心靈的矛盾情感導致評論家對其詩作的不同解讀：有的強調他對自然的喜愛，有的側重想像與自然的抗衡。Jonathan Bates認爲華氏詩作是書寫自然的典範，因為它的詩藉由描寫得自於自然景致之愉悅，教導讀者如何與自然共處。本篇論文經由探討華氏詩中所呈現之自然及自然與他的想像力的關係，試圖證明華氏詩中的自然是以「人」爲中心的挪用，而此種以人爲本的態度正是生態女性主義所要反駁的。

As one of the major poets in British Romantic period, Wordsworth is an important figure in nature writing. Yet, early in the 1960s, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey H. Hartman, and Paul de Man have mentioned that imagination in Wordsworth's poetry is of the same or more significance as nature. Wordsworth's dialectical love between nature and mind results in different interpretations among critics: some put emphasis on his love toward nature and some on the rivalry between nature and his imagination. Jonathan Bate believes that Wordsworth's poetry is an exemplar of nature writing from the perspective of the ecocriticism since his poetry teaches readers how to walk with nature through the depiction of the pleasure derived from natural scenes. This paper, however, through the exploration of the nature represented in Wordsworth's poetry and the relation between nature and his imagination, tries to demonstrate that Wordsworth's nature is the result of anthropocentric appropriation of nature and this human-centered attitude is what ecofeminism argues against.

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