中国诗歌和西方民谣的柔性与刚性特征的比较研究_英语论文

The Contrastive Study of Supple and Rigid Features of Chinese Poems and Western Ballads

摘要

中国诗歌与西方民谣都体现了各自的文化。本文通过两者具体的刚性、柔性的特征比较，分析特征背后隐藏的文化差异。文章最后剖析了类似于中国诗歌、西方民谣的旧文学对当代流行文学的影响，以及文学间的比较对语言发展的意义。

文章的结构如下：第一部分是中国诗歌与西方民谣的背景与前人研究，第二部分是对中英语言的分析，第三部分介绍了诗歌与民谣在不同时期下的具体特征以及中西方的相互比较。文章主要从文化、结构、修辞手法三个方面具体分析中国诗歌和西方民谣的差异，最后讨论了对现代文学的影响和对语言发展的意义，以及文章的不足之处。

关键词：中国诗歌；西方民谣；特征；柔性与刚性；比较

Abstract 

Chinese poems and Western ballads are typical literature of their own cultures. In order to figure out their features, this paper will focus on their contrast of supple and rigid features resulting from comparison. And it aims to explore the influence of the old literature like Chinese poems and Western ballads in modern popular literature as well as the significances to the development of their languages in the end of the paper. 

The outline of the paper is as follows: the first part is the background and previous researches on Chinese poems and western ballads. The analysis of the features of Chinese and English language is in the second part. And the next part is to introduce the history and the characters in each period of poems and ballads and their representations of the East and the West. The focus of this paper is the contrast of Chinese poems and Western ballads from their backgrounds, structures and rhetorical devices. At last, it discusses the influence in modern literature and the significance to language development and some inadequacies of this paper.

Key words: Chinese poems; Western ballads; supple and rigid; features; contrast

Contents

Chpater1 Introduction

1.1 Setting1

1.2. Literature Review

 1.2.1 Comparative Literature.1

 1.2.2 Contrastive Studies between Chinese and English Languages 2

 1.2.3 Studies on Chinese Poems.4

 1.2.4 Studies on Western Ballads5

1.3 Purpose of the Research5

1.4 Outline of the Research.6

Chapter 2 Analysis of Chinese and English Language

2.1 Distinct Logical Thinking .7

2.2 Concrete Differences of Structures 7

2.3 Summary8

Chapter 3 Description of Chinese Poems and Western Ballads

3.1 History of Chinese poems

 3.1.1 Ancient Poems.9

 3.1.2 Medieval Poems9

 3.1.3 Modern Poems.10

3.2 Poems Translation of Different Languages11

3.3Western Ballads

3.3.1 Topics of Western Ballads11

3.3.2 Local Dialects of Western Ballads12

Chapter 4 Contrast of Chinese Poems and Western Ballads

4.1 Background Analysis13

4.2 Structure Analysis

 4.2.1 Analysis of Musical Images13

 4.2.1 Analysis of Symbolic Images.15

4.3 Analysis of Rhetorical Devices

 4.3.1 Analysis of Figurative Rhetoric.16

 4.3.2 Analysis of Structural Rhetoric18

Chapter 5 Conclusion

5.1 Major Findings19

5.2 Significances.19

5.3 Limitation19

5.4 Further Research20

References21