The so-called image is the artistic image created by the objective image through the unique emotional activities of the creative subject.
It is a term used in the analysis of poetry and prose, which refers to everything that constitutes artistic conception. This kind of thing often carries the author's subjective feelings, and these images combine to form an artistic conception. For example, in Ma Zhiyuan's Qiu Si, dead vines, old trees, ravens, bridges and running water are all images in the poem. When these images are combined together, they become a sad and sad artistic conception. The image is concrete, and the artistic conception is the combination of the overall environment and feelings composed of concrete things. Feelings are pinned on the scene, and there are also on the scene.
"Image" is an important concept in China's ancient literary theory. The ancients believed that meaning was an internal abstract mind, just like an external concrete object; Meaning originates from the heart and is expressed through images, which are actually the sustenance of meaning. In fact, China's traditional poetics refers to the artistic techniques 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.