威廉布莱克《天堂与地狱的婚姻》中的预言性.doc

威廉•布莱克《天堂与地狱的婚姻》中的预言性

摘    要

威廉•布莱克是18世纪末19世纪初的英国最独特的浪漫主义诗人之一。许多批评家把他看作是世界著名的诗人、预言家、哲学家、艺术家。但是他在生前基本无人知晓，被同时代的人称为疯子。直到人类进入20世纪以后，人们才惊讶地发现布莱克早已在诗中描述了现代人的生存状态并指出了他们的希望所在。他的作品开始独放异彩。《天堂与地狱的婚姻》是布莱克一部经典的预言书。此书集中体现了布莱克的预言天赋。

本论文将从四部分论述布莱克《天堂与地狱的婚姻》中的预言性。第一部分首先对布莱克和之前关于《天堂与地狱的婚姻》的研究成果进行了介绍，第二部分对预言理论进行阐述包括预言的起源及发展，第三部分论述布莱克在《天堂与地狱的婚姻》中的预言方法：对立、视像和想象，第三部分论述了布莱克在《天堂与地狱的婚姻》预言的具体体现：帝国的覆灭和耶路撒冷的重建，第五部分为论文的结论部分。

关键词： 预言  威廉•布莱克 《天堂与地狱的婚姻》  

The Embodiments of prophecy in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Abstract

William Blake is one of the most unique poets of Romanticism. Many critics consider him as a remarkable poet, prophet, philosopher and artist in the world. He was unknown during his lifetime and was often called a madman. Many people surprisingly find that Blake has depicted the life in modern time in his poems and pointed out the prospects. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a classical prophetic book, which shows Blake’s gift of prophecy.

The thesis will deal with Blake’s embodiments of prophecy in five sections. The first section is an introduction to Blake and the previous studies on The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The second section introduces the theory of prophecy including its origin and historical developments. The third section is about the prophetic methods applied in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, including contradiction, vision and imagination. The fourth section is about the embodiments of prophecy in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, including the prophecy of the destruction of empire and Jerusalem’s reconstruction. The fifth section is the conclusion.

Key Words:  prophecy  William Blake  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell  

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 The theory of prophecy 2

3 William Blake’s prophetic methods in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 5

3.1 The prophetic method of contradiction 5

3.2 The prophetic method of vision 6

3.3 The prophetic method of imagination 7

4 The embodiments of prophecy in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 8

4.1 The prophecy of the destruction of empire 8

4.2 The prophecy of Jerusalem's reconstruction 9

5 Conclusion 11

Bibliography .. 13

Acknowledgements 14