What is the function of images?

The function of image is to entrust the author's feelings. Meaning is an inner abstract mind, 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 processing skills 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.

Detailed explanation of poetic 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.

It is a term used in the analysis of poetry and prose, which refers to everything that constitutes artistic conception. This kind of thing often carries the author's subjective feelings, and these images combine to form an artistic conception.

For example, in Ma Zhiyuan's "Qiu Si", in the sentence "The old vine is a faint crow and the small bridge is a flowing water family", the dead vine, the old tree, the faint crow, the small bridge, the flowing water and the family are all images in the poem. When these images are combined together, they become a sad and sad artistic conception. Image is concrete, artistic conception is the combination of the overall environment and feelings composed of concrete things, and feelings are pinned on the scenery.

China's poetics has always attached importance to the relationship between "meaning" and "image", namely, the relationship between "emotion" and "scene", the relationship between "mind" and "object", and the relationship between "spirit" and "form".