死亡,/是一门艺术,和其他事情一样。/我尤其善于此道。(西尔维娅·普拉斯《拉撒若夫人》)美国女诗人普拉斯一九六三年在伦敦的寓所里开煤气自杀,死时只有三十岁。她一定没有想到,她死后的名声变得那么大——她的诗不仅在二十世纪的英语诗歌史上获得了永久的地位,连她本人传奇般 Death, / is an art, just like anything else. I am particularly good at this. (Sylvia Plath, “Mrs. Lazarus”) The American poet, Plath, committed suicide in a 1963 dwelling in London, at the age of thirty. She would have never imagined that her reputation as a man became so great that her poetry not only gained a permanent place in the history of English poetry in the twentieth century,