中国有一部分古典情诗具有一种显著的喻托功能 ,即诗人以怨女思妇自比 ,以男女之情隐喻君臣关系 ,寄寓诗人在仕与隐方面的幽怨情怀。波斯中世纪诗歌中的情诗也同样具有喻托功能 ,即以情恋人间的情爱来隐喻诗人对真主的爱 ,寄寓诗人热烈的宗教情感。本文将着重分析这种喻托功能在中国和波斯产生的历史文化原因及其对诗歌表现特征和对后世文学批评产生的影响 Part of classical Chinese love poetry has a significant metaphorical function. That is to say, the poet regards women as heroes and turns to women and men as metaphors for the relationship between the monarch and the minister, and sends the poet’s feelings of resentment in official and hidden aspects. The poems of the Persian medieval poems also have the metaphorical function of metaphorical poet’s love for Allah and the passionate religious feelings of the poets. This article will focus on analyzing the historical and cultural causes of this metaphysical function in China and Persia and its influence on the performance characteristics of poetry and on later literary criticism