In the translation field, the translation of poems is regarded as the most difficult and complicated one. Based on corpus, this paper attempts to find out the language features of the English translations of Chinese poem—Luzhai written by Wang Wei, through comparing with the English versions in different aspects, such as lexicon and syntax. The results show that the translated poems tend to use more various vocabularies and be more explicit and normal in both lexical, syntactic and textual levels, which is not only relevant to the intralingual expansion of the translated language, but also related to the linguistic features of poetry. This paper tends to analyze how to maximize retaining original conception, rhyme and form of Chinese poems.
