善于拖延:乔治·赫伯特的《正义(上)》

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EXPLICATOR Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/00144940.2023.2253554

Jennifer A. Newton

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尽管文艺复兴时期的学者们在过去几十年里对乔治·赫伯特的奉献诗越来越感兴趣，但他的诗《正义（I）》却出人意料地很少受到批评。1然而，通过文字游戏、诗歌形式和主题解决的延迟，《正义（Ⅰ）》展示了赫伯特的抒情技巧，关于演讲者未能理解上帝与他相处的方式的公正性的诗。“正义（I）”以演讲者抱怨上帝对他似乎不公正开始，但当演讲者意识到他是对上帝不公正的人时，他又进行了反思：

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Skilled at Delay: George Herbert’s “Justice (I)”

Despite Renaissance scholars’ increasing interest in George Herbert’s devotional poems over the past few decades, his poem “Justice (I)” has received surprisingly little critical attention.1 However, through wordplay, poetic form, and delay of thematic resolution, “Justice (I)” demonstrates Herbert’s lyrical skill in creating a deceptively simple, yet poetically rich, poem about the speaker’s failure to understand the justice of God’s ways with him. “Justice (I)” opens with the speaker’s complaints about God’s seeming injustice to him, but then takes a reflective turn as the speaker realizes that he has been the one acting unjustly toward God:

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期刊介绍： Concentrating on works that are frequently anthologized and studied in college classrooms, The Explicator, with its yearly index of titles, is a must for college and university libraries and teachers of literature. Text-based criticism thrives in The Explicator. One of few in its class, the journal publishes concise notes on passages of prose and poetry. Each issue contains between 25 and 30 notes on works of literature, ranging from ancient Greek and Roman times to our own, from throughout the world. Students rely on The Explicator for insight into works they are studying.