孟郊的《游子吟》与W·S·默温的《分离》都选取了典型的别离作为抒情背景,且两诗中都运用到了“线”这一在中国诗歌中以别离为背景时常用到的意象,因而具有相似性。但同时因时空上的千年差距具有一定的差异性,具体表现在叙述视角、对“线”这一意象的运用及表达的情感上。 Both Mengzi’s wandering yin and W.S Merwin’s “separation” take the typical separation as the lyric background, and both of them use “line” as the background of separation in Chinese poetry Commonly used images, and therefore have similarities. But at the same time, it has some differences due to the difference of the millennium in time and space, specifically in the perspective of narration, the use of the image of “line” and the emotion of expression.