“创造性叛逆”与意象重生：庞德英译李白诗歌的动态意象研究

“Creative Treason” and the Rebirth of Imagery: A Study of Dynamic Imagery in Pound’s English Translations of Li Bai’s Poems

摘要: 本文以“创造性叛逆”为理论视角，深入考察埃兹拉·庞德在《华夏集》中英译李白诗歌时，如何通过双重重构——即意象内容与诗学语法的双重转换——实现“动态意象”的跨文化重生。研究指出，庞德的翻译不仅是在词汇、句法与空间层面激活原诗意象的“能量”，更是一场对中英诗歌语法体系的自觉革命。为打破英语逻辑句法的束缚并捕捉中国古典诗歌的意合精髓，庞德系统性地解构了传统的语法连接，重建了一种基于意象直接并置的“空间化句法”。这种诗学语法的创造，为其动态意象的重生提供了根本的形式载体。通过文本细读与比较分析，本文论证：庞德的“创造性叛逆”是一个从诗学理念到语法实践再到意象再造的完整闭环。其翻译不仅成功实现了李白诗歌核心美学特质的跨语际传递，更以其激进的语法实验，为现代主义诗歌提供了新的形式范式，凸显了文学翻译中形式创新对意义再生的决定性作用。

Abstract: This paper adopts the theoretical lens of “creative treason” to conduct an in-depth examination of how Ezra Pound achieved the cross-cultural rebirth of “dynamic imagery” in his English translations of Li Bai’s poetry in Cathay through a dual reconstruction—namely, the dual transformation of both imagistic content and poetic grammar. The study argues that Pound’s translation was not merely an activation of the original poem’s imagistic “energy” at the lexical, syntactic, and spatial levels but also a conscious revolution against the grammatical systems of both Chinese and English poetry. To break free from the constraints of English logical syntax and capture the paratactic essence of classical Chinese poetry, Pound systematically deconstructed traditional grammatical connections and reconstructed a “spatialized syntax” based on the direct juxtaposition of images. This creation of a new poetic grammar provided the fundamental formal vehicle for the rebirth of dynamic imagery. Through close reading and comparative analysis, this paper demonstrates that Pound’s “creative treason” forms a complete closed loop from poetic conception to grammatical practice and, finally, to imagistic re-creation. His translation not only successfully accomplished the cross-linguistic transmission of the core aesthetic qualities of Li Bai’s poetry but also, through its radical grammatical experimentation, offered a new formal paradigm for modernist poetry, highlighting the decisive role of formal innovation in the regeneration of meaning within literary translation.