Why should images be used in poetry creation? What role does image play in poetry? As I said before, in pure imagery poetry with imagery as its meaning, imagery is a carrier of feelings, and its function is to express one's heart and feelings through scenery; In the embellished image poems that directly express the soul, the image is the embellishment of emotion and the proof of the beauty of the poem. That is a judgment obtained by analyzing the relationship between emotion, image and language. If we start from the general principles of poetry creation, we may further analyze and summarize the role of images.
1, send affection to things, pleasing to the eye.
One of the functions of image technique in poetry is to pin abstract subjective feelings on concrete objective images, making them into tangible artistic images, so that feelings can be vividly expressed. If poetry is the spiritual vitamin of life, the poet wants to provide readers with some vitamins instead of pure preparations of vitamins. He can provide them in the form of fruits containing vitamins such as apples, bananas and oranges, because the latter are all good in color, fragrance and taste.
2, the same meaning is different, each sees its interest.
The second function of image technique in poetry is to make the same or similar feelings get unique artistic expression with the help of their original images. If a poet wants to provide readers with the same vitamins, he may provide them with many different fruits such as apples, bananas, oranges, pears, cherries, mangoes, strawberries and lychees and their different combinations without the same feeling.
For example, love poems, in fact, all love poems at all times and all over the world are the same theme, which is nothing more than "I love you", "I really miss you" and "If you want to marry someone else, you must marry me", but love poems can never be finished. Why? I think, mainly because of the different images, different love poems present different artistic temperament and charm.
3. The theme is vague and endless.
The third function of image technique in poetry is "words are not full of meaning, images are full of meaning", which makes difficult feelings and inexplicable truths expressed by images instead of words, resulting in the artistic effect of "endless words and endless meaning" that logical language can not achieve. In ancient times, the so-called "poetry is beyond expression" (1 1) mainly provided readers with a broad imagination and room for aftertaste. If the poet wants to provide readers with vitamins, and vitamins are various, there may be some unknowns besides the known ones, which are difficult to distinguish one by one. The poet just dedicated a basket of multi-dimensional fruits to readers and let them taste it themselves.
4, the text has a prison, take the image and avoid it.
The fourth function of image in poetry, as Shi Mao and Zheng Yi said, is "seeing the loss of today, not daring to criticize, but taking analogy." "Draw inferences from one instance" is to take an image. In an era when there is no freedom of speech, poets want to pour out their indignation at the dark side of society without being blocked by words. One possible choice is to hide your abilities and talents with images. You are determined to save the world, but in desperation, you have to produce some fruits containing these medicinal ingredients. Although its curative effect is doubtful, it is better than nothing, at least it will make the poet's conscience safer.
5. Refuse to be buried, which means elephant.
The fifth function of image in poetry is to keep a certain distance from the actual social politics, so as to avoid the naivety and lack of foresight in judging certain social ideals, social forces and social figures at that time, and then when the ideals are disillusioned, the forces and figures go to the opposite side, embarrassing the author and making the work a martyr. If the poet wants to provide readers with some kind of spiritual vitamin, some kind of vitamin that was favored at that time may be considered useless or even harmful later.
Finally, it should be emphasized that images are not everything. People's rich, profound and subtle spiritual world can't correspond to the objective material world one by one, and people's feelings can't be expressed with appropriate images at any time. Sometimes, the expression of images may not be as pleasant as the straightforward expression of "quick words". Therefore, fragments and even the whole story can be outspoken, including telling your feelings directly and praising your beauty directly.