In short, image refers to the artistic image that combines the subjective emotion of the subject of literary creation with the external object and image. Image is a concrete and perceptible objective thing. Such as mountains and rivers, vegetation, wind and rain, lightning and so on, these objective things can all appear as images in poetry. Of course, people, things and things that have injected the author's emotions are also included.
As a creative technique, the function of image superposition in poetry is to create artistic conception and arouse readers' imagination of "re-creation", so as to interpret the hidden profound meaning of poetry. Wen Tingyun, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote a five-character poem "Going to the Good";
I began to recruit priests in the morning and felt sorry for my hometown.
When a chicken crows at the Maodian Moon, people walk on the Banqiao Frost.
Mistletoe leaves fall on the mountain road, and orange flowers are on the wall of the post.
Because they remembered Ling Du's dream, the geese returned home full of food.
This poem expresses a strong sense of loneliness and homesickness. Although there is no word "early" in the whole poem, the first six sentences were written as early as hearing, thinking and seeing. The third and fourth sentences, "The cock crows in Maodian and the frost in Banqiao is a famous sentence handed down from generation to generation", in which only six specific things are listed without using a verb-this series of descriptive images are superimposed together, highlighting the characteristics of leaving early in autumn and returning late, so that readers can appreciate the artistic conception of this poem and the feeling of loneliness on the road in the morning.
Look at Qing Yu Case, Lingbo Weihengtang Road by He Zhu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty;
Ling Bo didn't cross the pond road, but after reading it, Chen Fang left. Who is the golden flower? Qiao Yue Garden, a bamboo building with locked windows, is only called Spring.
Blue clouds, dusk in Ran Ran, crayons, new topics, heartbreaking sentences. How much leisure do you have? Yichuan tobacco, city wind, plum yellow rain.
This word seems to be writing about lovesickness, but it is actually expressing the leisure worry of frustrated ambition. The next part of the word goes through three superimposed images: Yichuan tobacco; The city is full of wind; Plum Blossom Rain accurately shows the variety, confusion and lingering of "leisure sorrow". The original abstract "leisure worry" seems to be very vivid, which reveals the author's frustration and confusion because of lack of talent.