Abstract:The famous Tang poems are also known for their strict rules in wording and rhythm. It is thus a tough job for the translators to put the perfect antithetical sentences into English. There are already many different English versions of Tang poems. The ways people deal with the antithetical sentences can roughly be classified into three groups, namely, translating them into English antithetical parallelism, putting the two antithetical sentences into one English sentence, and translating the two antithetical sentences into two free English sentences. Although the loss of information in translating poems is unavoidable, we still should try to keep more of the original works for the English readers.