狄金森的空白

#761

From Blank to Blank­
A Threadless Way
I pushed Mechanic feet —
To stop — or perish — or advance­
Alike indifferent —

If end I gained
It ends beyond
Indefinite disclosed —
I shut my eyes — and groped as well
'Twas lighter — to be Blind —

狄金森的空白常是和極度痛苦相聯的，比如她的另一首詩 Pain has an Element of Blank . Harold Bloom 在他的西方正典 (The Western Canon) 裏特別提到狄金森的這首“空白”：I had thought of brooding on Dickinson's blanks as well, but I retreated before their formidable intensity. Bloom強調了狄金森的認知原創性(cognitive originality)和陌生性(strangeness)，比如最後一句實現了反轉，一種反諷(irony)的驚奇，definitely ends beyond the poem，讓讀者深思。

下麵ModPo視頻裏Al覺得這是首meta-poem，空白是創作過程中所麵對的一頁頁白紙，那第二段開始是不是在說“言有盡而意無窮”？最後還是閉上眼睛，到靈魂裏去探索，生命才會更輕靈。。。