摘 要

这篇论文是通过两部散文诗集中对意象的比较来学习西方文化差异。随着全球化的发展，文化差异已经成为阻碍全球经济，政治，文化等发展的主要因素，国内外许多专家正着力于研究如何解决文化差异这一问题，包括了解中西文化差异在哪里，而我们作为英语专业的学生可以从众多文学作品中来了解这一点。蔡丽双为中国现代女诗人，她的《感恩树》从祖国爱，母亲爱，人类爱三个层次表达了她对人性美与好的追求，同时也体现着浓重的中国文化。纪伯伦在欧美接受教育和艺术创作，他放弃本民族文化偏见，学习西方文化，为旅美派代表。他的作品多以爱与美为主要旋律，他的《先知》中体现着浓重的西方文化色彩，如西方宗教文化。这两部作品都是散文诗，意象对于作者表达思想是非常重要的，两位作者用不同文化色彩的意象表达出了相同的思想。因此我们通过对两部作品中的部分意象做比较，从而得出中西方文化在某些方面的差异。

关键词: 意象， 文化， 文化差异， 对比

ABSTRACT

The thesis is about the culture differences between China and western countries by the comparison on the images of Gan En Shu and The Prophet. With the accelerative process of globalization, cultural differences have become hinders of economic, political, and cultural development, many experts focus on cultural differences and try to understand differences between China and western countries. We can understand this point by many literature works. Cai Lishuang is a modern Chinese essayist and poet. Gan En Shu is a book of prose poems about love to mother, love to China, and love to the human beings. Kahlil Gibran, was educated in Europe and America. He didn’t discriminate any other national culture, but studied western culture. He expressed love and beauty as the main melody in his works. Western culture such as western religious culture is reflected in The Prophet. These two works are collections of prose poems, the images of the books are very important. The two authors with different cultures and images share the same idea. We will learn culture differences between China and western countries in some aspects through comparisons of some images in two books.

Keywords: image, culture, culture differences, comparison

1  Introduction
1.1 Introduction of the Prose Poem, Images and Culture Differences
Prose poem has features of prose and poem. It not only absorbs poem’s functions of expressing subjective mental and emotional performance, but also absorbs the freedom of prose. Prose and poem become together and seamless, form prose poem’s own unique characters. Prose poem is a type of poetry characterized by its lack of line breaks. Although the prose poem resembles a short piece of prose, its allegiance to poetry can be seen in the use of rhythms, figures of speech, rhyme, internal rhyme, assonance (repetition of similar vowel sounds), consonance (repetition of similar consonant sounds), and images. Foreign prose poem and Chinese native literature characters connected together, then Chinese prose poems came out. Lu Xun’s Ye Cao is the first prose poem in Chinese literature.