ABSTRACT Solitude and a striving to communicate are major themes in the poetry of Walter de la Mare. While best known for his verse and fiction, de la Mare also produced a series of unconventional anthological works which contain explicit treatments of those themes which are only implicit in his creative work. Drawing on the insights found in these anthologies, this paper argues that, for de la Mare, solitude – along with its opposite state, connectedness – form the endpoints of an axis of concern that is present throughout his body of work. His poetry can be read as an exploration of the infinitely varying degrees of solitude and connection that exist between these two absolute states, manifesting as the possibility of communication held indefinitely in abeyance. Furthermore, in a critical essay on the discourse of love, contained in his 1943 anthological work Love, de la Mare links the themes of solitude, connectedness, and the attendant possibilities of communication, to his deep concern with the problems of language. In doing so, he foreshadows the work of later critics concerning absence and presence in literature, and the possibility of language and meaning in the absence of an addressee, doing so at a time when much of the critical consensus took the communicative efficacy of language for granted.

中文翻译：

---

“那里有人吗？”：沃尔特·德拉马雷作品中的孤独与爱的诠释学

摘要孤独和努力交流是瓦尔特·德拉马雷诗歌的主题。尽管德拉马雷以他的诗歌和小说而著称，但他也创作了一系列非常规的选集作品，其中包含对那些主题的明确处理，这些主题只在他的创作中才隐含。借鉴这些选集中的见解，本文认为，对于德拉玛雷而言，孤独-与其相反的状态-连通性-构成了他整个工作过程中关注轴心的端点。他的诗歌可以看作是对这两种绝对状态之间无限变化的孤独和联系程度的探索，表现为无限期搁置通信的可能性。此外，在一篇关于爱的话语的评论文章中，de la Mare包含在他1943年的选集《爱情》中，将孤独，联系和随之而来的交流主题与他对语言问题的深切关注联系在一起。在这样做的同时，他预见了后来批评家关于文学中的缺席和在场以及在没有收件人的情况下语言和含义的可能性的工作，而这是在许多批评性共识将语言的传播效力用于理所当然。