Image is a term used when analyzing poetry and prose. It refers to various things that constitute an artistic conception. Such things often contain the author's subjective emotions. These images are combined to form an artistic conception; such as Ma Zhiyuan's " In the sentence "Withered vines, old trees, dim crows, and small bridges and flowing water and people's homes" in "Autumn Thoughts", withered vines, old trees, dim crows, small bridges, flowing water, and people's homes are the images in the poem. When these images are combined, they become a Desolate, sad, and desolate artistic conception, the image is about specific things, and the artistic conception is the combination of the overall environment and emotions composed of specific things. Emotions are placed in the scenery, there is emotion in the scenery, and the scenes blend together.
The word "image" is an important concept in ancient Chinese literary theory. The ancients believed that meaning is the inner abstract mind, and the image is the external concrete object image; the meaning originates from the heart and relies on the image to come. Expression, image is actually the sustenance of meaning. Traditional Chinese poetry theory actually refers to the artistic processing skills of embodying emotions in scenes, using scenes to express emotions, and blending scenes. The process of poetry creation is a process of observation, feeling, brewing, and expression. It is a process of expression. The process of reproduction of life. The author feels something about the outside world and entrusts it to a selected concrete image, integrating it with the author's own emotional color and creating a specific artistic world for readers to read. When poetry is written, one can create a second time in the heart based on this artistic world, and infiltrate one's own emotional color on the basis of restoring what the poet sees and feels.