Poetry is a literary style, which focuses on expressing the poet's thoughts and feelings. However, emotion is not poetry. From emotion to poetry, there is a concrete externalization process, which is not only an image construction process with both images, but also a process of creating artistic conception with harmonious thinking and environment.
Whether a poem has poetic flavor or not, in the final analysis, depends on whether the poem has beautiful and ingenious images. Whether a poem has a unique charm depends on whether it has an aesthetic mood of blending scene and reality. Image and artistic conception are two terms often used by poets and critics when writing poems. However, in several authoritative writing textbooks, such as Writing published by East China Normal University Press, Advanced Course of Writing published by Wuhan University Press, and even a fairly authoritative New Draft of Writing, there is a very coincidental situation: the creation of artistic conception is emphasized, the creation and analysis of images are downplayed, and some even fail to put forward the concept of images in the whole chapter. For famous works, it is normal for viewers to be attracted and infected by the artistic conception in the works.
In other words, it is understandable to emphasize the artistic conception of a work from the perspective of literary history or appreciation. However, writing textbooks are not dedicated to reappearing literary historical facts or appreciating works, but to let students master the necessary writing theories, understand the basic writing rules of common styles, and exercise their writing skills in common styles. In common stylistic writing, poetry writing is difficult for teachers to teach students, especially the poems carefully created by many students are tasteless in the eyes of experts, and the simple conclusion is not like poetry! Where does poetry come from? What is the key to writing poetry? What is the relationship between artistic conception and image? When discussing these issues in this paper, it is inevitable that the opinions of one family are biased. Please correct me.
General textbooks believe that the focus of poetry writing lies in the creation of artistic conception, and the beauty of artistic conception makes poetry full of charm. I think the focus of poetry writing should be the combination of images, which are cleverly chosen, naturally combined with each other, integrated and unique in natural artistic conception. In the final analysis, the choice of images should be the first in poetry writing, and artistic conception is a kind of overall connotation presented after the whole poem is written. That is, China is in the image, the end point is in the artistic conception, and the poetic image is not like it, but whether it is poetic or not, and poetry comes from the image; Whether a poem is beautiful or not depends on whether it has meaning, which comes from artistic conception. From poetic flavor to poetic beauty, it is actually the excavation process from image to artistic conception. Without images, artistic conception becomes passive water and rootless wood.
In the process of poetry creation, the poet always feels particularly touched by a phenomenon in life, produces a strange feeling and gets the first image, which often becomes the core image to be produced in this poem. How did this first image come into being? From the specific writing practice. There are two ways to write ordinary poems: one is to have emotional thoughts before using things skillfully, which is called the materialization of emotional thoughts; The other is that the poet first sees something and then expresses his will with it, which is called the emotionalization of things. Whether the image has penetrating power depends on the materialization of this emotion and the emotionalization of the object. It's wonderful if things can be integrated with me, but if things are separated, it's hard to attract readers' attention. Therefore, for poets, instead of painstakingly looking for unsatisfied inspiration, it is better to focus on capturing delicious and perishable images.