本文对中国先秦的《诗经·豳风·鸱鸮》与英国诗人的中古英语代表性辩论诗《猫头鹰与夜莺》中的猫头鹰的意象进行了深入比较,根据两篇诗赋中的猫头鹰的文化原型、结合两篇诗赋所处时代背景与中西方文化上的异同对其中的猫头鹰意象进行了解读。 This paper makes an in-depth comparison of the images of the owls in the pre-Qin Chinese poetry, “The Owl and the Nightingale,” with the English poet’s representative debating poem “Owl and the Nightingale,” and based on the cultural prototypes of two owls Combining the background of the two poems and the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western cultures, the owl imagery is interpreted.