埃德加·爱伦·坡的短篇小说长期以来被认为是与现实社会生活无关的“为艺术而艺术”之作。但作为多家报刊杂志撰稿人和全职编辑的坡不可能不关注到当时的社会焦点问题,即种族问题。本文将从坡的几部短篇小说中白人主人与黑人奴仆间的主仆关系入手来分析故事中的政治潜文本并进而探讨坡的种族观。 Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories have long been regarded as “art for art” unrelated to real life. However, as a writer and full-time editorial writer for many newspapers and magazines, it is impossible not to pay attention to the current social focus, namely ethnic issues. This essay starts with the relationship between masters and servants of white masters and black servants in several short novels of poem to analyze the political latent texts in the stories and then to explore the racial view of popes.