A Comparative Study on Imagery in Chinese and Western Poetry

Poetry is a kind of literature genre that highly concentrates on reflecting social life.It is full of the author’s thoughts,feelings and rich imagination.It has a concise and vivid language,a distinct rhythm and harmonious rhyme.This paper mainly ana⁃lyzes the differences between Chinese and Western poetry in terms of artistic techniques due to cultural differences and other fac⁃tors as an argument.The poetry in eastern culture mainly presents the characteristics of concise and implicit words.Compared with the poetry in western culture,the poetry in eastern culture more presents the characteristics of precise language and logical meticu⁃lousness,and makes image comparison and analysis.It discusses the Chinese and Western poetry similarities and differences in po⁃etry.