ABSTRACT The anonymous fifteenth-century poem The Floure and the Leafe intensifies its conventional borrowings into literary nature: literary references that are simultaneously natural description. The poem estranges the courtly commonplace of the flower versus the leaf, presenting the two groups to the narrator as categories in the process of formation. As a result, the poem reveals the imaginative potential of poetry to interrogate the nascent coalescence of natural and literary conventions, allowing the narrator to decide how she will live her life based on her recursive observation of and participation in the poem’s literary nature. Crucially, she learns how to read the events she witnesses partly through their sudden end: the courtly play of the Companies of the Flower and the Leaf is disrupted by a sudden storm, a day-ruining catastrophe in miniature that only the Leaves prove able to endure. In response to devastation, The Floure and the Leafe presents poetry as a shared and participatory tradition: a carefully maintained garden from which to gather the natural and literary resources that can ameliorate damage to both people and the environment.

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花园里的风暴：《花与叶》中的文学本性

摘要十五世纪的一首匿名诗《花露与叶》将其传统借用加强为文学性质：同时具有自然描述意义的文学作品。这首诗疏远了花与叶的宫廷平凡，将两组作为叙事过程中的类别呈现给叙述者。结果，这首诗揭示了诗歌具有想像力的潜力，可以激发自然和文学传统的新生结合，使叙述者能够根据对诗歌的文学本质的递归观察和参与，来决定自己的生活。至关重要的是，她学会了如何在突然结束时读到她亲眼目睹的事件：《花与叶的公司》的礼貌性游戏被一场突如其来的风暴打乱了，一场毁灭性的小灾难，只有叶子证明可以承受。为了应对灾难，《花露与叶子》将诗歌作为一种共享的参与性传统来呈现：精心维护的花园，从中收集自然和文学资源，可以减轻对人类和环境的破坏。