古希腊与中国先秦抒情诗 ,可以用“功用作品”和“表现作品”来概括、比较和分析。功用作品偏重于作品对接受者的影响 ,以发挥社会作用为目的。表现作品偏重于作品与作者的关系 ,强调作者真实感情的流露。本文提出 ,中国先秦抒情诗的主要类型是功利诗歌 ;古希腊抒情诗的主体则是表现作品。民族历史发展的特殊性是造成中希早期抒情诗类型差异的主因。 Ancient Greek and Chinese pre-qin lyric poetry, can be “functional works” and “performance works” to summarize, compare and analyze. Functional works are more emphasis on the impact of the work on the recipient, in order to play a social role for the purpose. Performance of works emphasis on the relationship between the work and the author, emphasizing the author’s true feelings of the show. This paper proposes that the main type of lyric poems in pre-Qin China is utilitarian poetry while that of ancient Greek lyrical poems is performance works. The particularity of the development of ethnic history is the main cause of the differences in the types of early lyric poems in China and Greece.