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Poems of Rupert Brooke-Part1_Rupert C.Brooke(1887-1915)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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as much as the things, -- "dear names", he adds. The born man of letters



speaks there. So, when his pulse is at its lowest,

he cannot forget the beautiful surface of his South Sea idyls



or of versified English gardens and lanes. He cared as much

for the expression as for the thing, which is what makes a man of letters.



So fixed is this habit that his art, truly, is independent

of his bodily state. In his poems of "collapse" as in those of "ecstasy"



he seems to me equally master of his mood, -- like those poets who are

"for all time". His literary skill in verse was ripe, how long so ever



he might have to live.

II



To come, then, to art, which is above personality, what of that? Art is,

at most, but the mortal relic of genius; yet it is true of it that,



like Ozymandias' statue, "nothing beside remains". Rupert Brooke was

already perfected in verbal and stylistic execution. He might have grown



in variety, richness and significance, in scope and in detail, no doubt;

but as an artisan in metrical words and pauses, he was past apprenticeship.



He was still a restless experimenter, but in much he was a master.

In the brief stroke of description, which he inherited from



his early attachment to the concrete; in the rush of words,

especially verbs; in the concatenation of objects, the flow of things



`en masse' through his verse, still with the impulse of "the bright speed"

he had at the source; in his theatrical impersonation of abstractions,



as in "The Funeral of Youth", where for once the abstract and the concrete

are happily fused; -- in all these there are the elements, and in the last



there is the perfection, of mastery. For one thing, he knew how to end.

It is with him a dramatic secret. The brief stroke does this work



time and time again in his verse, nowhere better than in

"at dead YOUTH's funeral:" all were there, --



"All, except only LOVE -- LOVE had died long ago."

The poem is like a vision of an old time MASQUE: --



"The sweet lad RHYME" ----

"ARDOUR, the sunlight on his greying hair" ----



"BEAUTY . . . pale in her black; dry-eyed, she stood alone."

How vivid! The lines owe something to his eye for costume, for staging;



but, as mere picture writing, it is as firm as if carved on an obelisk.

And as he reconciled concrete and abstract here, so he had left



his short breath, in those earlier lines, behind, and had come into

the long sweep and open water of great style: --



"And light on waving grass, he knows not when,

And feet that ran, but where, he cannot tell."



Or; --

"And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;



And see, no longer blinded by our eyes,"

Or, more briefly, --



"In wise majesticmelancholy train."

And this, --



"And evening hush broken by homing wings,"

Such lines as these, apart from their beauty, are in the best manner



of English poetic style. So, in many minor ways, he shuffled

contrast and climax, and the like, adept in the handling



of poeticrhetoric that he had come to be; but in three ways

he was conspicuously successful in his art.



The first of these -- they are all in the larger forms of art --

is the dramaticsonnet, by which I do not mean merely



a sonnet in dialogue or advancing by simple contrast;

but one in which there may be these things, but also there is



a tragic reversal or its equivalent. Not to consider it too curiously,

take "The Hill". This sonnet is beautiful in action and diction;



its eloquence speeds it on with a lift; the situation is

the very crest of life; then, --



"We shall go down with unreluctant tread,

Rose-crowned into the darkness! . . . Proud we were,



And laughed, that had such brave true things to say.

-- And then you suddenly cried and turned away."






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