According to the interpretation of Chinese characters, image is the image of meaning. The image of "meaning image in the brain for better understanding" produces a deeper image through abstraction and communication.
For example:
There are two kinds of images: one is direct and the other is indirect.
"Only part of an author's imagination comes from his reading. The image comes from his whole love life from childhood to adulthood. What I have seen, heard and felt with all people in my life, some images (but not others) are repetitive and full of feelings. Isn't that right? ..... such memories will have symbolic value, but we don't know what they symbolize, because they represent the deep feelings that our eyes can't penetrate. " -See Eliot's point of view (Exploration of Poetry, 198 1, No.2, 104).
Through this passage, we can understand that the direct "image comes from his whole perceptual life from childhood"; Indirectly, "part of an author's imagination comes from his reading"
Indirect division: metaphor (simile, metaphor, metaphor) symbols.
"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.
Images usually refer to natural images, that is, objects taken from nature to express their feelings. Many famous ancient poems, such as "the mountain fire never dies, the spring breeze blows high" and "the autumn wind blows the Weihe River, and the leaves are full of Chang 'an". (Jia Dao's Yishui Poetry) and "Spring can't close the garden, an apricot is out of the wall" are both natural images.
Sometimes, social things recited in poetry, characters depicted, life scenes depicted, social life plots and historical facts laid out are also used to entrust feelings, which is also an image. That is, the social image relative to the object image and the natural image.
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