在北愛爾蘭政治動亂和民族矛盾的背景之中,當代詩人馬爾登的詩作探討了根植于愛爾蘭傳統文化中的空間想象,反思了歷經苦難的愛爾蘭民族對政治未來的向往。本文考察了馬爾登由此展開的空間構想與葉芝、希尼等老一輩愛爾蘭詩人的不同之處,引入其關于"魔霧"等愛爾蘭傳統文化意象的討論,指出空間在馬爾登那里首先是一道向著未知開放的門檻,而他由此構建的詩學正是要將我們對政治的想象引向無限的可能。

Set in the turbulent years of the political unrest and nationalist conflicts in Northern Ireland, Muldoon’s works explore the imagination of space deeply rooted in traditional Irish culture and reflect upon the political aspiration of the long-suffering Irish people. This paper examines the differences in spatial constructs between Muldoon and Irish poets of the older generation including Yeats and Heaney. It brings in Muldoon’s discussion of "féth fíada" and other traditional Irish images, arguing that space in his works is first and foremost a threshold towards the unknown future and the poetics thus conceived reorients our imagination of politics towards infinite possibilities.