中国唐代诗人张九龄和美国19世纪诗人惠特曼各自生活在两个伟大的时代、两个伟大的国度。从比较文学的角度审视张九龄、惠特曼,我们会鲜明地领略到张九龄东方式的优雅和惠特曼西方式的粗犷,会感受到中国文化的强大魅力和美国文化的强大活力。从国家与时代背景、个人经历与个人性格、诗歌的精神品质三个方面对张九龄与惠特曼进行比较,折射出中美文化的灿烂与辉煌。 Zhang Jiu-ling, a Chinese poet in the Tang Dynasty, and Whitman, a 19th-century American poet, live in two great times and two great nations. Looking at Zhang Jiu-ling and Whitman from a comparative literature perspective, we will clearly understand the elegant elegance of Zhang Jiuling and the rugged Whitman-West style and will feel the powerful charm of Chinese culture and the vitality of American culture. The comparison of Zhang Jiuling and Whitman from three aspects of the background of the country and the times, personal experience and individual character, and the spiritual quality of poetry reflects the splendor and glory of Sino-American culture.