用情感和语言的标尺来衡量罗伯特·弗罗斯特的诗歌。

Holding emotional and linguistic rulers up to the poetry of Robert Frost.

作者信息

Whissell C

机构信息

Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

出版信息

Psychol Rep. 1999 Dec;85(3 Pt 1):751-8. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.751.

DOI:10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.751

PMID:10672733

Abstract

The words in a large and representative sample of Robert Frost's poetry were compared with information in several data bases which provided estimates of the poetry's pleasantness, arousal, emotionality, imagery, and linguistic complexity. Findings confirmed that Frost's poetry was linguistically simple and emotionally restrained in comparison to that of his cohort. They also highlighted the increasing variability in Frost's poetry across time and its decreasing imagery. Frost's poetry was more restrained than that of his male cohort but similar to the poetry of his female cohort in its linguistic simplicity. Frost's acknowledged death poems were in fact quite pleasant and passive in emotional tone.

摘要

将罗伯特·弗罗斯特大量且具有代表性的诗歌样本中的词汇，与几个数据库中的信息进行了比较，这些数据库提供了对诗歌的愉悦感、唤醒度、情感性、意象和语言复杂性的估计。研究结果证实，与同时代的人相比，弗罗斯特的诗歌在语言上较为简单，情感上较为克制。研究结果还凸显出弗罗斯特诗歌随时间推移而增加的变异性及其意象的减少。弗罗斯特的诗歌比男性同代人的诗歌更克制，但在语言简单性方面与女性同代人的诗歌相似。弗罗斯特公认的死亡主题诗歌在情感基调上实际上相当愉悦且消极。