术语“为诗辩护”的详细信息

英译术语:

defence of poetry

汉语语境:

“诗与哲学之争”是在公元前六世纪和五世纪希腊两派人之间发生的—次真实的冲突。当时，诗人和哲学家都自命为独自拥有智慧之源。哲学家柏拉图在其著作《理想国》中让他笔下的苏格拉底对自荷马以来的诗人及其作品大加挞伐，宣称摹仿的诗与实在隔了两层，是影子的影子，诗中没有知识，而且败坏人心。从这之后，诗与哲学之间的论争就成了一个在历史上永不停息的话题。这其中包括柏拉图对诗及诗人的谴责、亚里士多德对诗的辩护以及锡德尼和雪莱的“为诗辩护”等重要事件。英国的诗人、理论家菲利普•锡德尼的著作《为诗辩护》以论文的形式对诗歌的本质和社会功用进行了辩护，提出诗歌的本质是自然的范围内所进行的自由创作，并且诗歌也和历史、哲学一样可以反映真理并且在教诲人上优越于二者。他树立了诗歌的合法地位。

英语语境:

“The debate between philosophy and poetry” is a real conflict which took place between two groups of Greeks during the sixth century and fifth century BC. At that time, both philosophers and poets claimed themselves as faithful friends of wisdom and truth. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato, in his masterpiece The Republic, allowed Socrates to scourge poets, dating back to the period of Homer, as well as their works, claiming that imitative poems, intercepted by two layers from the substance, are shadows of shadows. Such poetry imparts no knowledge and can only corrupt human ethics. From then on, this controversy became a constant and everlasting theme. Plato's condemnation to poetry and poets, Aristotle's plead for poetry, Sidney and Shelley's defence of poetry and so on are all involved in this quarrel. The English poet and theorist Philip Sidney, in his masterpiece essay The Defence of Poetry, defends the nature and social function of poetry, and advocates that poetry is the free feigning under the framework of nature, and that poetry not only reflects truth as history and philosophy does, but prevails over the two regarding teachings as well. He has justified the role of poetry.