The classification of images in Li Bai's poems is mostly consistent with the classification of images in China's ancient traditional poems, mainly including the following categories:
One is vegetation. The representative images of vegetation include plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, grass, willow, pine and cypress, phoenix tree and so on. Vegetation images are often used to express characters' personalities, such as pine and cypress representing integrity and plum blossom representing noble and unyielding. In Li Bai's poem, "Peach blossoms and flowing water suddenly go away, and there is another world that is not human." Here, peach blossoms are used to express the realm of peace and happiness. Peach blossom is a symbol of spring and an ideal paradise.
The second is animals. There are Dapeng, goose, cicada and cuckoo among the animals. The typical image in Li Bai's poems is Dapeng. The representative poem is "Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars into Wan Li." In addition, the Dapeng in the poem, "The clouds hang down and the Dapeng turns over, and the ups and downs are huge", is the author Li Bai's self-externalization. The poet regards Dapeng as the sustenance of his ideal and ambition, and endows Dapeng with the personality strength to soar into the sky, which is the embodiment of the poet's unique ideological implication of yearning for freedom and free and easy.
The third is the appliance. There are wine, wine glasses, swords, boats, mirrors and so on Represents an image in a vessel. Wine and sword are two typical images in China's classical poems, which are used more frequently by male poets and appear more frequently when describing wars. One of Li Bai's most famous poems about wine is "Oh, let a man with spirit take risks where he likes, and don't point his golden cup at the moon!" "Although the poet didn't write the word wine directly in his poem, he described a heroic drinking scene with" the golden cup can't pour the bright moon ",which was very heroic.
The fourth is the meteorological scenery. Meteorological scenery category represents images such as sunset, rain and snow, running water, white clouds, blue sky and green hills. This kind of image is usually lyrical, which is more common in romantic poetry. For example, the "lonely cloud" in the poem "Birds fly high and lonely clouds go to leisure alone" in Sitting alone in Jingting Mountain is a frustrated self-image, and the "cloud" in Two Poems for My Brother Nanping is the spiritual portrayal of the author Li Bai's freedom of personality.