This paper examines Bohdan Boichuk’s poetry by looking into the role his childhood memories played in forming his poetic imagination. Displaced by World War II, the poet displays a unique capacity to transcend his traumatic experiences by engaging in creative writing. Eyewitnessing war atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis does not destroy his belief in the healing power of poetry; on the contrary, it makes him appreciate poetry as the only existentially worthy enterprise. Invoking Gaston Bachelard’s classic work The Poetics of Reveries: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, I argue that Boichuk’s vivid childhood memories, however painful they might be, helped him poetically recreate and reimagine fateful moments of his migrant life.

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Bohdan Boichuk的童年遐想：移民的怀旧之情，或记录诗歌中的痛苦

本文通过考察他的童年记忆在形成他的诗意想象中所扮演的角色，来考察Bohdan Boichuk的诗歌。在第二次世界大战中被驱逐，这位诗人展现出了独特的能力，可以通过从事创造性写作来超越他的创伤经历。纳粹目睹的战争暴行并没有破坏他对诗歌治愈能力的信念；相反，这使他将诗歌视为唯一存在价值的事业。我援引加斯顿·巴切拉德（Gaston Bachelard）的经典著作《遐想诗学：童年，语言和宇宙》，我认为，博伊丘克生动的童年记忆，无论多么痛苦，都有助于他诗意地重塑和重新构想他移徙生活中的命运。