从历史背景和地理位置上来看,爱尔兰一直处在英国的边缘地位,不被人关注。在诗歌领域,除了叶芝,谢默斯·希尼(Seamus Heaney)等为数不多获过诺贝尔文学奖的几个诗人以外,大部分爱尔兰诗人的成就往往被忽视。而诗歌本身作为一种文学体裁,不仅从中国目前的局面来看,即使在美英的文学研究中,曾一度辉煌,现在也几乎处于“失语”状态。正是在这种背景下,爱尔兰现代诗人马修·斯威尼作为他这个时代中的优秀人物,致力于诗歌的创作和推广,不断吸收各国文化新要素(如德国等),赋予诗歌以新意,形成了自己的写作风格,创作出丰富的作品。同时利用因特网,讲座等形式来推广,诗作被翻译成多国文字,正受到越来越多的关注。 From the historical background and geographical point of view, Ireland has always been on the brink of the United Kingdom, not being concerned about. In the field of poetry, most of the achievements of Irish poets are often overlooked, except for a few poets like Yeats and Seamus Heaney, who have won the Nobel Prize for literature. As a literary genre, not only from the current situation of China, poetry itself was once brilliant in the literary studies of the United States and Britain, but now it is almost in a state of “aphasia.” It is against this background that the modern Irish poet Matthew Sweeney, as an outstanding figure in his time, devoted himself to the creation and promotion of poetry, constantly absorbing new elements of culture in various countries (such as Germany) , Formed his own writing style, creating a rich work. At the same time using the Internet, lectures and other forms to promote poetry is translated into multi-national languages, is receiving more and more attention.