Image is an important concept in China's ancient literary theory. The ancients thought that meaning was abstract. Mind, like an external concrete object; Meaning comes from the heart. And using images to express it is actually the sustenance of meaning. The process of poetry creation is a process of observation, feeling, brewing and expression, and a process of reappearing life.
The author has a feeling for external things, and entrusts it to a specific image, so that it can be integrated into the author's own emotional color, and also enables readers to read poems accordingly. The mind carries out a second creation, permeating its own emotional color on the basis of restoring what the poet sees and feels.
The methods of constructing images can be roughly divided into three categories: Fu, Bi and Xing.
Fu, that is to say, write directly. In the author's view, an image already has the characteristics of expressing one's feelings, and it can be directly used to project feelings. Comparison, as we often say, compares the author's feelings with other things, similes, metaphors or symbols in different ways, and directly compares his feelings with people or things to make them have the characteristics of people or things. Xing, that is, "say something else first, so that the words can be sung."
There are many ways to combine images in poetry, which makes it easier to express feelings. Parallel combination, juxtaposing several groups of specific images; Contrast and combination, that is, choose two or more groups of objects, which are opposite and set off each other; Absurd combination is a combination of two or more illogical and logical images, that is, an impossible existence in reality. But it can be achieved psychologically.
Image has an indissoluble bond with aesthetic education. Only poems with beautiful images can give readers a sense of beauty. Whether you can create a novel and unique image of beauty is one of the signs to measure the success of poetry. When we interpret these images, we feel the complex meaning of the strong thoughts and feelings they represent, which makes us realize the unique aesthetic taste of this poem from an artistic point of view, and also feel the consistency between the poet's inner spirit and the images in the poem. Therefore, to read poetry, we must first understand the image.