Using imagery to grasp the artistic conception of poetry helps to clarify the emotional tone of poetry, helps us to correctly grasp the characters in the poem, helps to grasp the poet's lofty ambitions, and helps to comprehensively grasp poetry Purpose. —— "The Key to Interpreting Ancient Poetry"
Third, using imagery to grasp the artistic conception of poetry helps to grasp the poet's ambitions. As the saying goes, "Poetry expresses ambition", there are many ancient poems that express ambition, personality and aspirations through imagery: "Singing Cicadas in Prison" by Luo Binwang of the Tang Dynasty, "Plum Blossoms" by Wang Anshi, "Bamboo and Stone" by Zheng Banqiao, "Drinking Drinking" by Tao Yuanming ", Yu Qian's "Song of Lime", etc.
The poet places his ideals, ambitions, ambitions, pursuits, personality, sentiments, etc. on images, and uses images to express his inner firm choices and beliefs. These images are often endowed with certain human qualities, with a positive and constantly pursuing optimistic attitude, and represent the poet's inner life attitude, value orientation or political choices.
Therefore, to grasp the poet's ideals, ambitions, ambitions, pursuits, personality, sentiments, etc., imagery is undoubtedly one of the important starting points.
Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields (Part 1)" uses different images to express his tiredness of official life, his love for the beauty of pastoral life, and his longing for rural life; revealing a A mood of relief, ease, ease and leisure; expressing the longing for freedom and love for nature. Tao Yuanming bluntly stated in his poem that he naturally likes the countryside. This sentence seems to reveal the inner contradictions of the literati. Influenced by Confucianism, traditional literati actively participated in the world, had the courage to assume social responsibilities, and assumed social responsibilities. There were Confucius and Mencius and Qu Yuan before them, and Du Fu and Bai Juyi after them. However, there is always a gap between reality and ideals. They are passionate people who gradually undergo psychological changes in the darkness of officialdom and political strife. We have to withdraw from and avoid such a contradictory duality."
Take the image teaching in Wang Wei's "Dwelling in the Mountains in the Dark" as an example. There are ten main images in this poem, namely "empty mountain", "new rain", "bright moon", "pine", "clear spring", "stone", "bamboo", "huannu" and "lotus" , "fishing boat", etc.
The main images in the first couplet are "empty mountains" and "new rain". The empty mountains are bathed in a new rain. The word "empty" in "empty mountain" does not mean that the mountain is empty, but that the mountains and trees are lush, thus covering up people's life footprints and traces of activities. It is a natural connection between people who escape from the world and the secular world. The barrier symbolizes the political choice and life pursuit of escape, escaping from the world. The word "empty" in the "empty mountain" in this poem just describes the tranquility after getting rid of the noise and noise. The restlessness in the heart disperses and gradually calms down. It's like an empty mountain in a paradise, with the new rain falling, the air fresh, and the silence beautiful.
The main images in the couplets include "bright moon", "pine", "clear spring" and "stone". The bright moonlight shines from the gaps between the pine branches and leaves, and the clear spring water emerges from the rocks and flows on the stones in the valley. This is a natural scene that can be seen everywhere in Kongshan. Its beauty is so objective and pure; at the same time, its beauty is so subjective and selfish. This objective and pure scene entered the poet's eyes and was tainted with the poet's subjective and selfish inner emotions, which was natural and touching. I believe that every reader can read the poet's ambition and pursuit: "I would rather rest in the wild woods, rather drink from the water of the stream. I don't need to sit on the beam, and I can see the princes on the rugged road."
The main images in the neck couplet are: "bamboo", "huannu", "lotus", and "fishing boat". Suddenly there was a burst of noisy laughter in the deserted and quiet bamboo forest. It turned out that the innocent girls who had gone out to wash their clothes were returning. They were in groups, talking and laughing, and they were very happy. In the blink of an eye, the lotuses in the lotus pond were The leaves are slim and lush, and the fishing boats returning from fishing shuttle among the lotus leaves in the moonlight, breaking the tranquility of the moonlit night. The simplicity, happiness and carefreeness of the Huan girls make the poet envious; the fishermen's simple self-sufficient life of fishing also makes the poet yearn for it.
The poet did not mention officialdom at all, but his disgust for the dirty and complicated officialdom life and his yearning for the quiet and simple mountain village life are clearly visible on the page without leaving any trace.
It can be seen from this that this poem describes the natural scenery such as empty mountains, new rain, bright moon, green pines, clear springs, green bamboos, green lotus, etc., and depicts the life scenes of the girl returning from washing her clothes and the fisherman returning with the net. The description highlights the quiet, beautiful, leisurely and comfortable life in the mountain village, and expresses the poet's life ambition and choice of being indifferent to fame and fortune, staying away from officialdom, and retreating to the mountain village.
Method summary: grasp the image - analyze the characteristics and deep meaning of the image - combine the poet's situation and poetry writing background, grasp the symbolic meaning of the image in the poem - clarify the poet's ideal pursuit and personality ambition.