人类各民族文学有不同的特点,各民族在对客观事物的认识上,也有自己的审美传统和特点。人类在对客观事物的审美过程中,常常爱用比喻来表达自己的感情。可以说,比喻,是人类从不自觉到自觉地对客观事物进行审美创造的重要手段之一。这表现在文学作品中尤为突出。动物与人类并存。人与很多动物息息相关,从家禽家畜、深山老林的野兽及神话传说中的奇禽怪兽,无不成为文学作品描写的对象,以表达审美主体独特的情感体验。因此,将东西方文学作品中关于动物的比喻及其表现的复杂的审美感情进行比较是颇有意义的。 All kinds of human literature have different characteristics. All ethnic groups also have their own aesthetic traditions and characteristics in their understanding of objective things. Human beings in the process of aesthetic objective things, often love to use metaphor to express their feelings. It can be said that the metaphor is one of the important means by which mankind never consciously consciously creates objectively aesthetic things. This is particularly evident in literary works. Animals and humans co-exist. Man and many animals are closely related. From poultry and livestock, mountains and beasts and myths and legends, strange birds and monsters are all the objects of literary works to express the unique emotional experience of aesthetic subjects. Therefore, it is significant to compare the complex aesthetic feelings of the animal metaphors and their manifestations in East and West literary works.