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 understanding of the water. This secret of water imagery is unveiled in this essay with the help of Archetypal Criticism, revealing its significance to the human beings as a race.