Uncover the Reaper's Veil of "History": A Post-colonial Interpretation of The Solitary Reaper

摘要

华兹华斯是十九世纪英国浪漫主义诗歌的主要奠基人，“湖畔派”诗人的杰出代表。其诗歌想象力丰富、语言简洁明快。他在乡村田园诗上的成就堪称首屈一指。其诗歌大部分取材于自己的生活以及对生活的诠释。《孤独的割麦女》是其最著名的代表作之一。自《孤独的割麦女》问世以来，国内外评论家对这首诗歌的解读大多简单地将它视为一首优美的抒情诗，即诗人用民间平实的语言，讴歌自然之美，折射出诗人对劳动人民的体恤和浓浓的乡村田园情结，然而该诗却远比这复杂。

综观国内外研究现状，从后殖民视角解读《孤独的割麦女》的研究迄今为止并不多见。课题通过对《孤独的割麦女》这一诗歌作品的仔细阅读和深入研究，在文献资料搜集和分析的基础上，以诗歌创作的时代背景为切入点，从后殖民分析的角度出发，运用后殖民理论和文化符号学方法解读华兹华斯的《孤独的割麦女》，挖掘隐没于浪漫主义诗篇闲情逸趣下的历史真相、话语暴力、种族危机与文化矛盾，从而揭示帝国内部殖民的内幕、浪漫主义的意识形态话语与殖民主义既斗争又共谋的复杂关系。

期望本课题的研究能够结合较新的文学批评理论，抓住作品中所包含的现实的启发意义，对更深入地理解该作品提供一定的参考价值和现实意义。

关键词：华兹华斯，《孤独的割麦女》，后殖民主义，浪漫主义，

Abstract
William Wordsworth, the main founder and the spokesman of English romantic poetry in the 19th century, is called "a singer of nature" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Solitary Reaper is one of his representative works. At present, most of the studies of The Solitary Reaper are limited by the traditional literary views of aesthetics, regarding it simply as a beautiful lyric poem, but the poem is far more complicated.
Among the studies on The Solitary Reaper at home or abroad, there has been little research from the perspective of post-colonialism. With postcolonial theory and cultural semiotics to interpret The Solitary Reaper, we can make literary texts "historical"; at the same time, through the discovery of fracture, contradiction, and missing in the text and the analysis of the complex relationship between the present and the absent, the signifier and the signified, we can explore, stretch and stress literary works expressed by ideology and enable them to give a voice of their own. Thus, this poem is interpreted and explored with postcolonial theory and cultural semiotics from the four aspects of history, language, geography and identity, in order to reflect the problems that the poem has referred to and to further dig historical truth, discourse violence, racial crisis and cultural conflict hidden in the poem.
This research finds the poem’s relevance to the contemporary world and provides a more comprehensive and convincing comprehension of this poem. 
Key words: Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper, Post-colonialism, Romanticism