Eight Common Functions of Poetic Images

1. Create an atmosphere

For example, in Pipa, the sentence "Being" in which maple leaves and rushes rustle in autumn creates a desolate and lonely atmosphere when leaving friends.

Use scenery to express emotions

This is the most commonly used, all scenery words are sentimental words, and the scenery described in poetry generally has this function.

3. Shaping the background or environment

This function is similar to "creating atmosphere", but it is also different, that is, through the combination of multiple images-image group, it provides the background or environment for the activities of the characters. This role is widely used in landscape poems and frontier poems, such as "The Dark Snow Mountain with Long Clouds in Qinghai" in Wang Changling's War.

Step 4 create artistic conception

What it presents to readers is a three-dimensional picture, with the purpose of giving people an immersive feeling. Only by "approaching" or "entering" can we perceive the beauty of the realm and the author's emotion. Such as "moonlight in the pine forest, crystal stone in the stream"

"Sunset lingers at the ferry, and the smoke from supper rises from the house."

"The desert is lonely and straight, and the long river falls in yen."

"Autumn water * * * sky is one color, and the sunset is lonely in Qi Fei."

"A thousand miles away, a wisp of smoke, a lonely city at sunset" are all poems with far-reaching artistic conception.

5. Set off the character or character of the character.

This function is common in writing object poems. In terms of expression skills, we often use symbolic techniques or figurative rhetoric (everyone should pay attention here), such as snow, bamboo, plum, pine, crane, lotus, Zhong Ping, golden wind and jade dew, etc. To set off the noble character, perseverance and emotional purity of the characters.

Set the emotional tone

For example, the first three sentences of Liu Yong's Yulin Ling, "It's cold and sad, the pavilion is late, and the shower begins to rest", which lays a bleak tone for the whole poem.

7. Set the scenery with the background as the background

This function is most used in landscape poetry.

For example, "the quiet scene sets off the noisy scene"-"the bamboo language of the laundry girl who goes home"

"The lotus leaf comes out before the fishing boat" —— Set the silence by moving.

Warm Scenery Against Cold Scenery —— Qingsong Tiaosun

Light-colored landscape versus dark-colored landscape-"Sunlight enters the forest and reflects to me from the green moss"

Set the sky with a panoramic view-"the wild goose returns, and the west building will be full in the next month"

Setting Emotion with Stories (or States) —— "Abandoning trees in a pond is not enough to talk about soldiers"

8. Contrast the scene with the situation

This function often appears in poetry, which shows that the poet uses the shade of image color to contrast the shade of emotion, which is often associated with the expression skills of homophonic pun.

For example, in Li Bai's Spring Thoughts, the phrase "Your northern grass is as blue as jade, and my mulberry leaves are as green as silk branches" is to use the blue and green of mulberry grass to set off the strong feelings of thinking, and the words "silk" and "branches" are homophonic with "thinking" and "knowing" respectively. There are also sad scenes to set off sadness, happy scenes to set off happy or happy scenes to set off sadness. For example, Du Fu's poem "Ascending the Mountain" sets off sadness with sadness, while his quatrain "Birds Beyond the White" sets off sadness with joy.