Whether a poem has poetic flavor or not, ultimately depends on whether it has beautiful and ingenious imagery. Whether a poem has a unique charm depends on whether the poem has an aesthetic conception of blending scenes and complementing the virtual and the real. Imagery and artistic conception are two terms that poets often use when writing poems and poetry critics when discussing poetry. However, several authoritative writing textbooks, such as "Writing" published by East China Normal University Press, "Advanced Course on Writing" published by Wuhan University Press, and even the quite authoritative "New Draft on Writing", all appeared by coincidence. Such a situation: emphasizing the creation of artistic conception and downplaying the creation and analysis of imagery. Some even do not even mention the concept of imagery in the entire chapter. For established masterpieces, it is normal for viewers to be attracted and infected by the artistic conception in the work. In other words, it is understandable to emphasize the artistic conception of the work from the perspective of literary history or appreciation. However, the writing textbook is not specifically about reproducing literary historical facts, nor is it specifically about appreciating works, but it is about enabling students to master necessary writing theories, understand the basic writing rules of commonly used styles, and practice writing skills in commonly used styles. Among the commonly used writing styles, poetry writing is the most difficult for teachers to teach students and the most intimidating. In particular, the poems carefully composed by many students have no poetic flavor in the eyes of experts, and a simple conclusion does not look like poetry! Where does poetry come from? What is the key to writing poetry? What is the relationship between artistic conception and imagery? This article will now discuss these issues. One person's opinion is inevitably biased, and I hope you can correct me. General textbooks believe that the focus of poetry writing lies in the creation of artistic conception, and the beauty of artistic conception is full of poetic flavor. I believe that the focus of poetry writing should be the combination of images. The images are cleverly chosen, naturally combined with each other, seamlessly integrated, and the natural artistic conception is unique. In the final analysis, poetry writing should be based on image selection first, and artistic conception is the overall connotation presented after the whole poem is written. That is to say, China lies in imagery, and the end point lies in artistic conception. The difference between poetry and imagery depends on whether it has poetic flavor, which comes from imagery; whether poetry is beautiful or not depends on whether it has connotation, and connotation comes from artistic conception. From poetic taste to poetic beauty, it is actually a process of excavation from imagery to artistic conception. Without imagery, artistic conception becomes water without a source and a tree without roots. The process of poetry creation always begins when the poet has a particularly moving feeling about a certain phenomenon in life, a strange emotion, and the first image. This first image often becomes the poem that will be produced. core image. How did this first image come about? It can be seen from the specific practice of writing. Generally speaking, there are two ideas for writing poetry: one is to first express feelings and thoughts, and then use objects to express feelings, which is called the materialization of feelings; the other is to see something in the poet's eyes first, and then express his ambition through the object, which is called object image. Emotionalization. Whether the image is clear and sublime depends on how well the materialization of emotions and the emotionalization of objects are done. It would be wonderful if things and I can blend in with mind and matter, but if mind and matter are separated, it will be difficult to arouse readers' excitement.
Therefore, for poets, instead of searching hard for inspiration that is hard to come by, it is better to pay attention to capture the delicious and fleeting images