Image is an important concept in China's traditional poetics. Yu Guangzhong, a poet in Taiwan Province, said: The so-called image is to appeal the poet's internal meaning to the external image, and then the reader will restore the poet's internal meaning according to this external image.
In short, image is an image with meaning, that is, an object used to pin the poet's feelings. Image is not a simple addition of the poet's subjective meaning and objective image, but a combination of the poet's inner meaning and similar image.
Image has always been a key to appreciate classical poetry. Li Dongyang in the Ming Dynasty said in Poems of Huailu Hall: The cock crows like a thatched cottage, and people are covered with frost. However, people know that they can express their worries in words and meanings. I don't know that they don't use one or two idle words in two sentences, but they only mention the word "find the right place", but they rhyme sonorous and have a full image, which is really rare for newcomers.
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The image of poetry is a high degree of unity of subjectivity and objectivity, emotion and scenery, but this unity is not a simple addition of the two, but a natural fusion. Russian literary critic belinsky said: "Ideas are expressed through images, and imagination plays a major role." Artistic imagination is the main means of blending emotion and scenery.
Generally speaking, people, scenery and things in poetry belong to the category of "image", and the emotions that poets want to express are mainly expressed through "image of people", "image of scenery" and "image of things".