【正文】 13 不到長城非好漢， 屈指行程二萬。 The view from perilous peak is sublime and grand.” This line of sentence are very easy to understand, but the content meaning are not every could get. Last important feature is Mao often use short sentence to show his strong passion. As the first Chinese revolution leader, he always encourages people to fight against evil power. We can see belligerence between the lines, after reading his poem, people are perated with patriotic feeling. From the sentence “從頭越，蒼山如海，殘陽如血” translated as “ Surmounted with big strides, Green mountains like the tide。 關(guān)鍵詞 ：毛澤東詩詞；意象；許式“三美”；方法 1 ABSTRACT Mao Zedong’s poetry, with its highly artistic and cultural value, has been regarded as treasure in Chinese contemporary literature and it has made great influence worldwide. Mao Zedong is a good imagist poet, who proposes lots of new thoughts on modern poetry image on the basis of the Chinese Classical Poetry, and creates the unique imagery system. Reproducing the images can unfold the soul of poems, which is a big challenge for translators. This paper is based on Xu’s “Three Beauties” theory and it analyzes the basic methods of translating image from Mao’s poetry. The analysis of translation methods is from the perspectives of sound, form and sense. Key words: Mao Zedong’s poetry, image, Xu’s “Three Beauties” theory, methods 1 CONTENTS 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 1 2 Image in Poetry ........................................................................................................... 4 Definition of image ........................................................................................... 4 Function of image ............................................................................................. 5 3 Image in Mao Zedong’s Poetry ................................................................................... 7 Features of Images in Mao Zedong’s Poetry .................................................... 7 Classification of Images in Mao Zedong’s Poetry ............................................ 8 Static Images ........................................................................................... 9 Dynamic Images ..................................................................................... 9 4 Xu’s “Three Beauty” Theory Applied in Mao Zendong’s Poems Image Translation11 Methods Applied in Translating Beauty in Sense ........................................... 11 Methods Applied in Translating Sound........................................................... 14 Methods Applied in Translating Form ............................................................ 16 5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 19 Bibliography................................................................................................................. 21 Acknowledgments........................................................................................................ 22 1 1 Introduction China is an ancient and big nation of poetry with over twothousandyear poetry history and deep cultural tradition. Classic Chinese poetry, regarded as the peak of Chinese poetry literature, is absolutely a most precious treasure, a highly condensation of traditional Chinese culture, and a splendid unification of sense, sound and form beauty of Chinese language. Traditional Chinese poetry often use image to express certain theme. There is a saying that: “Image is the soul of poetry, without image without poetry.” (Chen 78)Through the ages, many poets use special Chinese image in their poetry to express their will or hope. Among those brilliant poets, there is a special poet whose poetry, although written in the period of modern time, adopts a pletely traditional style of classic Chinese poetry and meanwhile possesses a magnificently unique individual charm. That poet is Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong is mitted to Chinese revolutionary cause, who led us to obtain the victory of the new democratic revolution and whose glorious military events are widely spread in China. Most people just regard him as a politician or a militarist。 毛澤東善于構(gòu)筑詩歌意象 ,他在中國古典詩詞的基礎(chǔ)上 ,對近代詩歌意象作了很多創(chuàng)新 ,由此形成了獨具特色的意象系統(tǒng)。 poetry is the best words in the best order.” (Lefevere 4)Poetry is a literary form which uses little words to express their feeling, so every word in the poetry is equally important. No matter it is Chinese poetry or English poetry, two issues are necessary, one is strong rhymes, and the other is strong feelings. Both original writing and translation should contain these two issues. The content of the poetry should express the author’s strong and spontaneous feeling. Rhyme, line and language should be placed at the second stage to consider. All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings。 “rippling rills” makes us see the shape of the Ridges and hear the ripples by the use of alliteration and assonance, that is to say, beauty in sense is brought out when associated with beauty in sound or form。 Counting up, we’re done twenty thousand li in all. Of Spiral Mountain at the crest, Red flags wave in wanton winds form the west. With the long cord in hand today, When shall we bind the Dragon Gray? The first translation method is literal translating method, the first sentence “天高云淡” translate