天长地久有时尽,此情绵绵无绝期——析中英爱情诗表现手法的异同

Love's Eternal Presentation——An Analysis on the Similarities and Differences in Chinese and English Love Poems

爱情是古今中外文学作品中永恒不变的话题,而诗歌以其凝练、优美的语言最充分地体现了这一主题。在中英爱情诗中,除了语言风格上的很多相同之处外,在表现手法上也有诸多相同点,如:借助比喻等修辞手法;借助动植物以及自然现象来抒发感情等等;但由于中西方的文化、民族个性差异等等使得中英诗歌在表述爱情时又有不尽相同之处。

Love is an eternal topic in ancient and modern literature both at home and abroad,while poetry, with its expressiveness and elegance,has been almost the best way to express love in the past thousands of years. In Chinese and English love poems,apart from the similarities in language style, there are many other similar ways used in expressing love,such as figures of speech,animal and plant embodiments,and natural phenomena;on the other hand, owing to the differences in culture,writer's personality,different ways in expressing love also have been existing in English and Chinese love poems.