世纪末重读雪莱《诗辨》既震动又困惑。震动的是雪莱在“诗辩”中对工业革命早期的西方物质文明的实质及其所诱发的社会及意识、心态等方面的问题概括得如此之精确、透彻,以至预言了后工业时代的诸种问题和它对人类的挑战。困惑的是这些问题的核心是贪婪、愚昧、动物欲望与崇高信念间的矛盾,因此与人性深处有实质性的联系,以至至今没有答案,成为人类文化历史中尚无法解决的问题。 Shelley’s re-reading of poetry at the end of the century was both jarring and puzzling. Shocked by Shelley in the “Book of Poetry” in the early Industrial Revolution, the essence of the Western material civilization and its induced social and awareness, attitude and other issues summarized so precise, thorough, and even predicted the post-industrial era Various problems and its challenges to humanity. Puzzled at the core of these issues is the contradiction between greed, ignorance, animal desires and lofty beliefs. Therefore, there is a substantive connection with the depths of human nature, so far no answer has become an unresolved problem in the history of human culture.