出刊年月/Date of Publishing

1998.09

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第28卷第3期 Vol. 28, No. 3

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
The Sense of Place, the Inscription and Wordsworth’s “Poems on the Naming of Places”
地方意識、銘文和渥滋華斯的〈為地方命名之詩〉

作者/Author
余幼珊 Yu-san Yu

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 73-99

摘要
本文試圖從「地方意識」和「銘文」的角度來討論威廉．渥滋華斯的〈為地方命名之詩〉。詩共六首，皆爲渥滋華斯1799年移居湖區後隔年所寫。這些詩顯現詩人在定居之初，欲在新環境中營造安居生根之氣氛，並建立「地方意識」，故試圖將「作詩」和「成家」結合起來。「命名」這個舉動可視為一種「銘刻」，詩人藉「命名」將自己和家人「刻」在這片土地的景物草木上，一方面達到紀念之目的，另一方面則透過此舉而產生「地方意識」。從這個角度來看，在〈爲地方命名之詩〉這些詩裡面，渥滋華斯翻新了傳統的「銘文」。他將傳統「銘文」中經常出現的「地靈」轉變成了「詩魂」，以詩人替代了神靈。如此不但將神靈人形化，而且將地方收為己有，自我與新環境得以互相融合。

Abstract
This paper discusses William Wordsworth’s “Poems on the Naming of Places” from the perspectives of the sense of place and the inscription. I argue that the group of poems, which were written shortly after Wordsworth’s move to Grasmere in 1799, demonstrate the poet’s attempt to combine poetry-making with home­making as he settled in and felt the need to strike root and to establish a sense of place in the new surrounding. The act of “naming,” I suggest, is a form of inscribing through which the poet “inscribes” himself and his family on the landscape, not only for commemoration reasons, but also in an attempt to achieve a sense of place.

The “Poems on the Naming of Places,” however, are not traditional inscriptions carved onto gravestones. In writing these poems, Wordsworth has innovated the genre and transformed the genius loci common in the inscription into genius poeticus; and in turning the poet into the “spirit” that guards the place, he has not only humanised the genius loci, but also metaphorically “possessed” the place, so that the place becomes part of the self.

關鍵字/Key Word
地方意識、銘文、地靈、〈為地方命名之詩〉
sense of place, inscription, genius loci, spirit of place, “Poems on the Naming of Places”

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學門分類/Subject
文學 Literature