埃德温·缪尔的诗人之路发端于他的奥克尼故乡情结,也折射出20世纪初苏格兰社会的变迁以及苏格兰文学的复杂性和魅力。缪尔一方面对苏格兰社会的病态批判反省,另一方面也以自己的方式表达着家园关怀。缪尔诗歌通过对记忆中的奥克尼不断回溯来展现一种自我激励、超越隔阂的生活,而作为一个将故乡视为“伊甸园”的诗人,缪尔的诗也传达了对人类返璞归真的向往。 The path of Edwin Muir poet originated in his Orkney homeland complex, which also reflects the changes of Scottish society and the complexity and charm of Scottish literature at the beginning of 20th century. Muir, on the one hand, criticized the morbid state of Scottish society on the one hand, and on the other hand, expressed his own way of caring for the home. Muir’s poems show a self-motivated and transcendental life through the recollection of Orkney in memory. As a poet who regarded the hometown as “Eden ”, Muir’s poem also conveys a return to humanity Yearning.