(1) based on life:
Life is the source of all literary creation and the foundation of poetic imagination. The expansion of imagination can go from the sky to the ground, not limited by time and space, but it cannot be invented out of thin air. The expansion of imagination is actually a deformation of life, but this deformation is based on life and higher than life. Writing poetry can not be divorced from life while expanding imagination. This is something that every author should keep in mind.
(2) with emotion:
The development of imagination is conceived in emotion, as Ai Qing, a famous modern poet, said: "Imagination and association are emotional channels, flying from one thing to another." When writing poetry, you should have sincere and strong feelings, so as to develop your imagination and create your favorite novel and strange image.
(3) ingenious design:
Generally speaking, the idea of poetry is to poeticize life, which involves the refinement of poetry theme, the expression of emotion, the processing of images, the expansion of imagination, the choice of angles and so on. I just want to emphasize the relationship between originality and imagination. Mr. Li, a famous contemporary literary critic, put it well: "The conception of poetry is the most creative key stage in poetry creation. A good poem must have excellent thoughts, and excellent thoughts are essentially creative imagination, especially the performance of creative association in imagination. "
In a sense, ingenious conception means that imagination produces novelty, and imagination produces novelty. The key is what Mr. Li called "the expression of creative association in imagination".
(4) Better than metaphor:
Metaphor is the medium of imagination. When writing poetry, using novel metaphors is one of the ways to reach the novel realm through imagination.
Shanghai Night Song, the masterpiece of Gong Liu, a famous contemporary poet, is one of the novel poems that realize imagination with novel metaphors. Please look at the first part:
Go to customs. Bell tower. Hour hand and minute hand
Like a giant pair of scissors,
Round and round,
Broke the day.
What is written here is that Shanghai is from day to night, which is unclear, but it is a novel metaphor of "hour hand and minute hand/like a giant scissors" on the customs bell tower above, which subtly reflects that Shanghai has entered the night from day to night with its "breaking the sun" at this time. The metaphor is novel and strange, and the expansion of imagination has reached a novel realm.
(5) be good at exaggeration:
Exaggeration, in layman's terms, is exaggeration and exaggeration, but it does not violate the truth of art. Writing poems and being good at exaggeration will undoubtedly help the imagination reach a novel realm. There are too many such masterpieces in ancient poetry to list them one by one, so I won't list them one by one.
Let's take a look at the poems of famous contemporary poets:
Suppressed thousands of waves and valleys,
Tucao a lot of love;
Wow, it's the rooster of our post.
Crying broke the quiet harbor!
This is the third poem in the famous contemporary poet Li Ying's "Cocking at the sentry post", which uses the exaggerated lines of "restraining the valley of thousands of waves" to expand imagination and write "Cocking at the sentry post" to reach a novel realm.
All right! Huangshansong, I say hello to you loudly.
Who let you stand firm, stand firm and hold your head high;
Nine Wan Li thunder, eight thousand Li storm,
Don't cut it crooked, can't cut it, can't tear it down!
This is the first poem written by Zhang Wanshu, a famous contemporary poet, which says, "Nine Wan Li thunders, eight thousand Li bursts,/Can't be cut, can't be cut, can't be blown up!" These exaggerated poems expand the imagination and reach a novel realm.
(6) Through inspiration:
When I talked about the theme of the poem earlier, I mentioned inspiration. It needs inspiration to refine and express the theme. The imagination of poetry also needs the help of inspiration. Inspiration is fleeting. When writing a poem, the author must seize the moment of inspiration, spread the wings of imagination, let imagination serve the theme expression and image creation of the poem, create a novel and unique artistic conception, and give people the enjoyment of artistic beauty.
Practice has proved that the novelty of imagination is an important secret of success in writing poetry. If imagination lacks freshness, writing poetry will drift away from success.