Abstract：Gestalt psychology lays emphasis on the principle of integrity, that is, the whole counts more than the addition of separate parts. In Chinese poetry, ideorealm ( yijing) is frequently expressed through objects and images ( yixiang) . Due to the linguistic differences of hypostasis and parataxis between English and Chinese, problems arise in the process of Chinese poetry translation. This paper, from the perspective of integration principle of Gestalt theory, makes a comparison of three English versions of the poem Shang Shan Zao Xing in terms of the transmission of images and ideorealm, and thus coming to the conclusion: as the holistic ideorealm of Chinese poetry is not equal to the simple addition of individual images, the ideorealm should be regarded as the ultimate goal in poetry translation, images and ideorealm must be well integrated in order to form a Gestalt.

Keyword：Gestalt;Chinese poetry translation;image and ideorealm;integration;