W.H.奥登的《悼念叶芝》在形式与基调上是一首悼亡诗,在主旨上则是一篇深刻激昂的诗论。运用现象学批评的意识还原法可以探寻奥登的独特诗学意识在诗中的体现。在时代语境下,奥登用诗的形式探讨诗的本源、生命力和独立品格,阐明诗的无用之用,同时提醒同道应肩负的使命。 W.H. Oden’s “Tribute to Yeats” is a poem of mourning on the form and tone, which is, on the whole, a profound poetic theory. The use of phenomenological criticism of the reduction of consciousness can explore Auden’s unique poetics embodied in the poem. In the context of times, Oden explores the origin, vitality and independence of poetry in the form of poems, expounds the uselessness of poems, and reminds his fellow citizens of the mission they should shoulder.