For example, the "empathy" phenomenon in Li Shangyin's poem "Spring silkworms die, night candles burn their wick" is not only due to the poet's association, but also due to the poet's state of mind. First of all, it is because of the poet's sad mood of missing his lover. When he saw the scene of silkworms spinning their cocoons, he caused similar associations, and felt that silkworms also had this sad thinking (the homonym of "thinking" or "silk feeling"). Secondly, poets are sentimental. He is in a sad and painful state of mind, so when he sees the scene that the wax torch burns himself to ashes and no longer drips oil, he will have similar associations, and he will feel that the wax torch is also crying and his tears will dry up until the end of his life.
Another example is Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess in the Southern Song Dynasty. Due to the untimely death of her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, and the retreat of the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was no hope for the future of the country. She wandered alone in the south of the Yangtze River, feeling even more depressed, depressed, sad and helpless. In this state of mind, the poet is particularly sensitive to the changeable weather in autumn. "When it's warm and cold at first, it's the hardest to lose interest", which reflects the different physiological and psychological feelings brought by coming back every day in late autumn with the change of weather. Love at first sight reminds her of a happy life after marriage, and love at first sight reminds her of a sad and helpless life after the death of her spouse. It is based on this mentality that the cold and lonely atmosphere around her will make her feel cold and sad. Falling geese and falling flowers will remind her of her lonely and desolate widowed life. The poet's lonely window was bored, full of melancholy, and the autumn rain continued, dripping on the plane leaves, which prompted her to have a very strong sad mood. As a result, "yellow flowers piled up all over the floor. Gaunt, now who can pick ""Indus drizzle, dribs and drabs at dusk. At this time, the empathetic poem "How can I get a sad word" ("Looking for a slow voice") naturally came into being.
For another example, in Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions, "When a fragrant tomb is buried, a swallow cries red", and Lin Daiyu laments, "Flowers bloom and fall, and flowers fly all over the sky. Who has pity?" Her empathy poems are also produced under the joint action of her mood of "worrying about spring" and the association of "burying flowers hurts the body"
In a word, the "empathy" function of poetry creation is a special phenomenon in which the thoughts of the poet or the hero in the poem dynamically and creatively reflect objective phenomena and social natural phenomena. It is not only the reflection and expression of objective things through the association of people's inner feelings and the role of people's special mood, but also the result of their joint action. The application of "empathy" makes the objective scenery in the poem full of the tremor and beauty of the perceptual life form, and makes the poet's eyes and soul blend into one, which is super-perceptual and inseparable from sensibility. The ingenious use of "empathy" is one of the reasons why poetry has a strong artistic charm for a long time.
In psychology, there is also the concept of empathy. The so-called empathy is to transfer the feelings of some important people in your past life to the people you meet now, or to get emotional needs from some important people but not get them, hoping to be satisfied from the current relationship.