摘要

月亮这一意象常常成了人类思想情感的载体，她的意蕴十分丰富。在很多咏月诗歌和戏剧作品中，诗人或作者都将月融于的内心思想情感之中，并使月与内心的思想情感互为辉映，创造了许多优美的审美意境，并将诗的文学品位、思想内涵与艺术造诣提升到一个极高的水平。
在漫长的历史演变过程中，文人墨客笔下有关月亮的传说、诗词、歌赋、学说等等都赋予了月亮独特的文化意象。而这些文化意象作为宝贵的民族遗产应该在当今跨文化学术语境下得到最佳交际效果。而月亮作为一个原型意象也必然反应不同文化背景下的民族意识与心理。
李白和莎士比亚都是他们那个时代具有影响力的人物，他们的思想在一定的程度上会受到当时社会环境的影响，同时他们的思想也会影响当时的人们，二人的观点和看法可以代表各自所在的那个时代。通过对李白和莎士比亚作品中月亮这一意象的分析，寻找到了一个不同的角度来解读大家耳熟能详的经典名著，而从这个角度出发，可以弥补一些阅读中所忽略的内容，对名著和中西方古典文化有了更多的认识。
本课题将选取李白和莎士比亚包含月亮意象的典型作品，如李白的《静夜思》《闻王昌龄左迁龙标遥有此寄》《月下独酌》，莎士比亚的戏剧《威尼斯商人》、《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《仲夏夜之梦》等，通过对他们的作品的月亮意象的选择及其建构意象的分析，在比较中理解它们所反映的审美观和价值观的差异。并分析产生这种差异的原因。

关键词：意象  对比分析

Abstract

Image is a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience. Typically, such a representation helps evoke the feelings associated with the object or experience itself. Images are either "literal" or "figurative." Literal images are especially concrete and involve little or no extension of the obvious meaning of the words used to express them. Figurative images do not follow the literal meaning of the words exactly. Images in literature are usually visual.
The Moon has been the subject and inspiration of many works in countless art and literature. It is a motif in the visual arts, the performing arts, poetry, prose and music.
It plays different symbolic roles in varied literatures. It’s rich in connotation in different culture. In the long history of literature for using the image of the moon, “moon” has become a reflection that not only stands for the poem’s thought but also stands for the cultural background under the poem.
This article will firstly take a review on the different image theory between China and West to get a general understanding. Next, it would take Li Bai and Shakespeare as examples to make analysis, respectively. By using the typical words in their famous works, the differences of their “moon characteristics” will be showed, and the last part is all about how these differences can tell us of their culture-affected concepts of beauty and values.    

Key words: imagery，comparative analysis