A Comparative Study of Water Imagery in the Chinese Poem Happy Rain on a Spring Night and American Poem A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree

摘要

This essay directs at the water imagery of two poems Happy Rain on a Spring Night and A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree. Although living in different time and place, Chinese poet Du Fu and American poetess Emily Dickinson share some deep under-standing of the water. This secret of water imagery is unveiled in this essay with the help of Archetypal Criticism, revealing its sig-nificance to the human beings as a race.