新冠肺炎时代的艺术与精神——本·奥克里诗歌的探索性解读

Nelson S Ratau
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自2019年在中国首次出现Covid-19以来,全球约有1.6亿人感染。因此,整个世界都受到了负面影响,许多人失去了生命、工作和亲人,包括家庭中的经济支柱。随着这一流行病的流行,人们对其带来的挑战也产生了各种看法。在了解Covid-19对世界的负面影响的模式中,不能忽视文献。因此,本文从尼日利亚诗人、小说家和散文家本·奥克里的精神主题出发,对他的诗歌进行了探讨。灵性指的是“认识到一种感觉、感觉或信念,认为存在着比我更伟大的东西”,一个人存在的时代和处境。在这篇论文中,Okri的诗歌被认为是一种基本的指标,即使在大流行时期,也可以理解“精神”是如何被构思和表达的。本文采用解释学方法作为一个理论透镜,通过它可以最好地观察和理解奥克里的诗歌。解释学方法本质上需要对文本进行分析,以发展洞察力或深思熟虑的智慧。此外,论文还提出,Okri的诗歌充满了一种精神气质,使其具有相关性,因为它在Covid-19大流行期间鼓励、创造并保持了人们“清醒”的精神敏感性。该分析以一系列预先确定的主题为基础,即;种族、身份、治愈、灵性、思想和意识,这些都是奥克里将其诗意化并随后在他的诗歌中提出的质疑。在这个过程中,Okri的诗歌还鼓励精神复兴和意识觉醒,通过在读者中锤炼一个不可分割的事实,即要改变或塑造现实,人们应该自己去做。Okri的诗歌挑战人们定义自己,并挑战他人对自己的所有错误定义。最后,本文阐述了Okri的诗歌对人们对自由、平等和变革等问题(这些都属于“精神”的洪流)的明显冷漠进行了尖锐的指责,他提出人们应该负责这三个重要实体如何在社会中产生和存在。
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Art and Spirituality in the Covid-19 Epoch: An Exploratory Reading of Ben Okri’s Poetry
Covid-19 has infected approximately 160 million people globally since its first occurrence in China in 2019. Consequently, the whole world has been negatively impacted, with numerous people losing their lives, jobs and loved ones, including breadwinners in families. With the prevalence of the pandemic also came various views on the challenges that came with it. Literature cannot be left out of the modes that are providing an understanding of the negative impact of Covid-19 on the world. Therefore, this paper explores the poetry of the Nigerian poet, novelist and essayist, Ben Okri, in light of his thematisation of spirituality. By spirituality, it is meant the ‘recognition of a feeling or sense or belief that there is something greater than myself’, the times and situation(s) in which one exists’. In this paper, Okri’s poetry is considered as an essential index into how ‘the spiritual’ is conceived and articulated, even in times of pandemics. The paper adopts the Hermeneutical Approach as a theoretical lens through which Okri’s poetry may be best viewed and understood. The Hermeneutical Approach essentially entails the analysis of texts in order to develop insight or thoughtful wisdom. Furthermore, the paper proffers that Okri’s poetry is invested with a spiritual temper that makes it relevant as it encourages and makes and keeps ‘awake’ a spiritual sensibility in the people during the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis is undergirded by a predetermined set of themes, namely; race, identity, healing, spirituality, thought and consciousness that Okri poeticises about and subsequently interrogates in his poetry. In the process, Okri’s poetry also encourages spiritual renaissance and the awakening of consciousness, by tempering in a reader the inalienable fact that to change or shape reality, people ought to do it themselves. Okri’s poetry challenges people to define themselves and defy all false definitions of themselves made by others. Ultimately, the paper explicates that Okri’s poetry is charged with pointed rebuke of people’s apparent apathy towards issues such as freedom, equality and transformation (all of which belong to the great stream of ‘the spiritual’), of which he submits that people ought to take charge of how these three important entities come about and exist in society.
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