《诗经·关雎》和古希腊诗人萨福的《给所爱》分别是中西方最早的爱情诗,二者生长于迥然不同的文化土壤,却在同样的爱情母题下展示出人类永恒追求的审美精神。然而,由于地理文化、诗歌语言、情感思维相异,这两首诗在审美风貌上表现出不同的艺术取向。通过对比这两首诗歌,可以揭示出中西方文化中爱情诗歌在情感关系向度、抒情手段和音韵构造等方面迥然有别的审美表现。 “The Book of Songs, Guan Yu” and “Giving Love” by the ancient Greek poet Sappho, respectively, are the earliest love poems in China and the West. Both of them grew up in very different cultural backgrounds and demonstrated human eternal pursuit under the same motif of love The aesthetic spirit. However, due to the differences of geographical culture, poetic language and emotional thinking, these two poems show different artistic orientations in aesthetic style. By comparing these two poems, the aesthetic performance of love poetry in Chinese and Western cultures can be revealed in terms of the degree of emotional relation, lyrical means and phonological structure.