生活在同一世纪的英国诗人约翰·弥尔顿和中国诗人纳兰性德都经历过丧妻之痛,他们谱写的悼念亡妻之诗词情真意切,哀婉动人。然而,不同的社会文化背景导致二人的悼亡诗作存在较大的差异。作者从文本内外对二人的悼亡诗进行解读,探究中英悼亡诗在意象选择、抒情方式及主题表现三方面存在差异的根源。 John Milton, a British poet living in the same century, and Nara, a Chinese poet, have experienced the pain of widowing their wives. Their poems, written in honor of their deceased wife, are genuinely and morally touching. However, different socio-cultural backgrounds lead to great differences between the two mourning poems. The author interprets the two people’s mourning poems from the inside and outside of the text and explores the causes of the differences between the mourning poems of China and the United Kingdom in three aspects: image selection, lyricism and theme expression.