Multi-sensory function of poetry

In literary creation, the thinking of writers and poets is extremely active. The feelings between people are borrowed and communicated with each other. Poets' sensory organs should communicate openly with each other in their poems. Just as Liu Xie said, "Poets have a sense of things and endless associations". When the poet's feelings surge, his hearing, smell, vision, taste and touch become very close and sensitive. Thus, in the poet's wandering world, the sound has a shape, the flowers have a song, and the fragrance has a color. ...

Rhetorically, it is called "telepathy" or "synaesthesia". For example, the spring breeze is green in Jiang Nanan (Wang Anshi: boating in Guazhou). The author turns the tactile spring breeze into a visual "green" image, which makes people feel the charm of the spring breeze strongly.

In classical poetry, when describing the external scenery, the author often mobilizes a variety of senses and describes it from multiple levels and angles. The so-called vivid portrayal. As we all know, human senses can be divided into hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. It is through these channels that we perceive and understand the world around us. Poets are naturally different from ordinary people when mobilizing their senses. Because a poet has a poetic heart, he has a unique vision and can dig out different or new connotations in familiar things, so that the scenery has a strange sense of distance and beauty naturally appears.