《楚辞》与《诗经》之比较刍议

《诗经》和《楚辞》都是我国先秦时代最重要的诗歌著作。它们一个代表现实主义，一个代表浪漫主义，对我国后世诗歌乃至整个中国古代文学都有着重大而深远的影响。它们虽然都因同出于华夏文化之源而有许多共同点，但也由于各自产生时代、地域等的不同以及作者身份、地位和阅历等的差异，彼此间又在创作精神、思想内容、语言形式、传统道德观念以及艺术风格等方面存在着重大差别。分析和比较这些异同和差别，这对于更好地认识、了解这两部作品的性质和特点是不无意义的。

A Comparison of The Verse of Chu and The Book of Songs

Both The Book of Songs and The Verse of Chu are important works of poetry of the pre-Qin period. One is realistic and the other is romantic, having important far-reaching influence on poems of later periods and even on the Chinese classical literature as a whole. Originating from the same Chinese culture, they have many aspects in common, but because of the differences in times and places of their creation and the differences in social positions and experience between different authors, there exist in them great differences with regard to the spirit of creation, ideological content, language forms, traditional concept of morality, artistic styles. It is not of insignificance to make analyses and comparisons of their similarities and differences for a better understanding of the natures and features of the two works.