初读西默斯·希尼的《挖掘》并没有给我带来像初读艾略特那样的震撼与深深的折服,尤其它浓厚的现实主义色彩,它语言上的平实,与当时我迷醉其间的现代主义的尖锐、夸张有很大的落差(在接触现代主义之前我们似乎读了太多的现实主 The first reading of Sims Sinny’s “Digging” did not give me the shock and deep admiration of Eliot in the first place, especially its strong realism, its verbal flatness, The sharp, exaggerated and dramatic excesses of modernism that fascinated us (before we came into contact with modernism, we seemed to read too much of the reality