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

Abstract

摘  要

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