An Analysis of English Translation “The Moon over the Eyebrow Mountain” from the Perspective of the Image Continuity

Yu Xia

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An Analysis of English Translation “The Moon over the Eyebrow Mountain” from the Perspective of the Image Continuity

Yu Xia

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 11, Issue 1)

Received: 6 February 2023 Accepted: 22 February 2023 Published: 28 February 2023

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After years of poetry creation, the poet chooses fixed images to express certain ideas or emotions. These words with certain ready-made meanings and idioms can be used by the author to express certain thoughts and feelings. The poet is impressed by the fixed image and continues to create new works. We call it the “image continuity”. The continuity of image is particularly prominent in Li Bai's poems, it is not difficult to find that there are many repetitive typical images in Li Bai's poems. “The Moon over the Eyebrow Mountain” is a famous seven-character poem written by Li Bai. It describes the poet riding a boat down the stream from the Qingxi Posthouse on a bright autumn night. It expresses the poet's longing for his hometown and old friends when he left the country. This paper will use the case analysis method, taking the continuity of the image as the research perspective, and Xu Yuanchong's version of “The Moon over the Eyebrow Mountain” as a typical case, trying to analyze the continuity of the representative image "moon" and the continuity of the regional image, in order to expect to analyze the rationality of Xu Yuanchong's translation and enrich readers' understanding of these images.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 11, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20231101.14
Page(s)	20-23
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The Image Continuity, Moon Image, Regional Image, “The Moon over the Eyebrow Mountain”

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Yu Xia. (2023). An Analysis of English Translation “The Moon over the Eyebrow Mountain” from the Perspective of the Image Continuity. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 11(1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20231101.14

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Yu Xia. An Analysis of English Translation “The Moon over the Eyebrow Mountain” from the Perspective of the Image Continuity. Int J Lang Linguist. 2023;11(1):20-23. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20231101.14

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School of Foreign Languages, Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences, Chengdu, China

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