As a teacher, I often see students confuse imagination with imagination when composing or appreciating articles or poems. Association and imagination are both related and different.
Imagination and ideals are indispensable and important ingredients in people's brain thinking. Because of imagination and association, people's lives will be colorful. Many people think they have the same meaning, but in fact they are essentially different.
By definition, association is the psychological process of thinking of one thing from another.
Imagination is a thinking process in which people use the materials provided by original knowledge, information and memory to process, transform and combine to re-create a new image.
Association is often expressed in metaphors in poetry. "I don't know who cuts the thin leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors." The poet He Zhizhang associates the willow leaves with the spring breeze, and the spring breeze with the scissors. The association is natural, appropriate and novel, and has become an eternal famous saying.
Take Guo Moruo's "Street Market in the Sky" as an example. Association is used in two places in the article.
The street lights in the distance are bright,
It seems like countless stars are shining.
The stars in the sky appeared,
as if countless street lamps were lit.
The poet looked at the looming street lights in the distance, which were very similar to the twinkling stars in the sky, and he came up with an association. Then the poet looked up at the sky and saw the flickering stars, so he naturally thought of the looming street lights in the distance. This is the association between street lamps and stars, and the association between stars and street lamps.
To give an example in our daily life, when it snows, we often say "goose-feather heavy snow"; when it rains, we say "bean-sized raindrops". The reason why we say this is because people are seeing it. When we think of heavy snow and raindrops, we naturally think of goose feathers and beans that are similar in color or shape to them. This thinking process is association.
I think there must be a beautiful market in the misty sky.
Some items on display at the street market.
It must be a rarity that does not exist in the world.
Look, the shallow Milky Way.
It is definitely not very broad.
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl across the river.
You will definitely be able to ride on an ox.
I miss them at the moment.
Definitely take a stroll in Tianjie.
If you don’t believe it, just look at that shooting star.
They were walking with lanterns.
These lines of poetry are imagination, expressing the poet's belief in the beauty of the heavenly market and reflecting his persistent pursuit of ideals.
For example, when students draw "creative paintings", they need rich imagination. They have to re-create the materials accumulated in their minds in order to conceive of flying horses, running fish, magical things, etc. The underwater world, this process is imagination.
The associations and imaginations in poetry are often the highlights of poetry, which remain fresh in people’s minds after reading them.
Association is the basis of imagination, and imagination is the sublimation of association. It is precisely because of the connection between the two that people often use them together.
Teacher Hui hopes that after reading the above content, children will no longer confuse the two concepts of association and imagination.
I wish the children to make progress in their growth and education.