Images usually refer to natural images, that is, objects taken from nature to express their feelings.
Sometimes, social things recited in poetry, characters depicted, life scenes depicted, social life plots and historical facts laid out are also used to entrust feelings, which is also an image. That is, the social image relative to the object image and the natural image.
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China's poetics has always attached importance to the relationship between "meaning" and "image", namely, the relationship between "emotion" and "scene", the relationship between "mind" and "object", and the relationship between "spirit" and "form". There is a lot of discussion in this regard. Empathy for scenery, intention for things, focus on form and implication for images are actually just different manifestations of poetic images in China's traditional poetics.
In fact, China's traditional poetics refers to the artistic processing skills of expressing feelings in scenery, borrowing scenery to express feelings and blending scenes. The process of poetry creation is a process of observation, feeling, brewing and expression, and a process of reappearing life.
The author has a sense of the outside world, so he entrusts it to a specific object, so that it can be integrated into the author's own emotional color and create a specific artistic world, so that readers can make a second creation in their hearts according to this artistic world when reading poems, and infiltrate their emotional color on the basis of restoring what the poet sees and feels.
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