Time: The Eternal Theme of Poetry——A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Poetry

摘要

Space and time are the existent forms of matter. Space is vast and time has nobeginning nor end. From ancient times, people, generation to generation, have triedto examine infinite time from philosophical, scientific and literary angles. When weread Chinese and English poetry, we ’ve found time is the most common theme ofpoets. In Chinese poetry, the images about time are various. For example: Lu