摘 要
观穿着文明的进步和伴随着文化的演变，诗歌逐渐成为一种文化，它代表并揭示了不同地方的不同风格和内涵。中文诗歌和英文诗歌用不同的方式魔幻了现实世界，正突现了这一特征原理，近来在中文诗歌和英文诗歌诗法比较上的热门讨论已转向于二者在意象创造上的比较讨论上。它瞄准于揭示诗歌意象的创造比较研究在中文诗歌和英文诗歌上的本质差别。此论文意图描画出这种差异特征，并同时从文化角度中探索根源。它着眼于不同的民族传统，表达方式以及美学作用方面的比较研究，类似的方法和概括应用于支持中文诗歌和英文诗歌在意象创造的对比系统研究中，以抒情诗作为其主要来源，对文化根基的解析探讨，包括思想体系，世界观,对意识形态和语言的影响，都同时实施了解析探讨。最终得出结论为：和谐主导着中文诗歌的意象创造而逻辑和理性则渗透于英文诗歌的意象创造。
关键词：意象创造；文化根基；比较研究；中文诗歌；英文诗歌
Abstract
Throughout the advancement of civilization and along with the cultural evolution, poetry is gradually culturalized, representing different style and revealing different connotation of different lands .Chinese and English poetry, featuring such a principle, have enchanted the world in different ways. Recently the heated discussion in comparative poetics has switched to imagery-creation in Chinese and English poetry, aimed at disclosing the essential roots of the differences about imagery-creation between Chinese and English poetry, this paper intends to outline the features of these discrepancies and, at the same time, to trace their springhead from a cultural perspective. It focuses on a comparative of study of tradition, means of presentation, and aesthetic effect. The methods of analogy and generalization are applied with the support of a systematic investigation of imagery-creation in Chinese and English poetry, with lyrics as its main source. Analytic inquiries about the cultural roots, covering system of thought, worldview, influence of ideology and language, are conducted at the same time. Finally, it draws a conclusion that harmony dominates imagery-creation in Chinese poetry whereas logic and reasoning permeate that in English poetry.
Key words：Imagery –creation; cultural roots; comparative study; Chinese poetry; English poetry
Contents
Introduction 1
1 Poetic Imagery and Culture Analysis 1
1.1 Definition of Poetic Imagery and its Relationship with Culture 1
1.2 A Preview of the Cultural Analysis 2
2 Difference in Tradition: Continuous Preference vs. Accidental Fondness 3
2.1 Chinese Poetry Has a Continuous Preference towards Imagery– Creation 3
2.2 English Poetry Displays its Accidental Proneness 5
2.3 Cultural Analysis: System of Thought determines Literary Tradition 6
3 Differences in the Means of Imagery-Presentation 7
3.1 Bi, xing in Chinese Poetry vs. Metaphor in English Poetry 7
3.2 Natural Symbolic Images in Chinese Poetry vs. Religious and Mythological Symbolic Images in English Poetry 10
