Abstract:From the perspective of comparison literature,this paper discusses the similarities between ancinet Chinese poetry and modern imagism,of which Pound is a typical represntative.Influenced by Taoism aesthetics,Chisese poetry features brevity,implicity and vivid images,which aimes to break the limit of time and place.Chinese poems are also characterized by the juxtaposition of images on account of Chinese character's two features,i.e.,parataxis and idograph.All these properties resemble imagists poetics,for they also pursue brevity and the vivid picture which is desinged to reveal poets' epiphany.Influenced by Chiese poetry,imagists adopt the juxtaposition of images.