What does the word "image" mean in poetry?

Image and artistic conception are two important concepts in poetry appreciation, but many students often confuse their meanings. Modern Chinese Dictionary makes no distinction between this and simply interprets "image" as "artistic conception". Artistic conception is the realm and emotional appeal of literary and artistic works through image description, and it is the aesthetic imagination space of the image of scene blending and virtual reality in lyric works and its induction and development. Image is a typical art, which aims at expressing philosophical thoughts, takes symbolism or absurdity as its basic characteristics, and achieves the ideal state of human beings. According to this definition, we can draw the following points: First, image is a typical image to express meaning, a subjective image, and it is perceptual and concrete; Artistic conception is a kind of realm and artistic conception, which is expressed or induced by images and needs to be understood and abstracted. Secondly, images or the combination of images constitute artistic conception, and images are the means or ways to constitute artistic conception.