Mr. Tong Qingbing, a master of literary theory, defined them as follows in his book "A Course of Literary Theory": Artistic conception is the realm and artistic conception expressed by literary works through image description, and it is the image of scene blending and virtual reality coexisting in lyric works, and the aesthetic imagination space induced and developed from it. Image is an ideographic image that aims at expressing philosophical concepts, takes symbolism or absurdity as its basic characteristics, and reaches the ideal realm of human beings. According to this definition, we can draw the following points: First, artistic conception is a realm and artistic conception, which is expressed or induced by images and is 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. It takes imagination to master them correctly.
There are two main situations in which an image constitutes an artistic conception. First, an image constitutes an artistic conception. For example, Wang Mian's "Mo Mei": "There are trees near my home in Xiyan Lake, where flowers bloom and fall with faint ink marks. Don't boast that the color is good, just let the air be full of dryness. " There is only one image in the poem-Mo Mei. But this plum is not a plum in nature, but a plum in the author's heart, a tree with ink color and personality. The self-adaptive artistic realm formed by this plum tree is the unique artistic conception of this poem. Generally speaking, chanting poems are like this. Secondly, the combination of images forms the artistic conception, that is, multiple images form a picture of life and form the overall artistic conception. For example, Li Bai's "Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou" says: "An old friend said goodbye to the West Yellow Crane Tower, and fireworks will raise the continent in March. Lonely sails and distant shadows are blue. Only the Yangtze River flows in the sky. " This poem is composed of a series of individual images-Yellow Crane Tower, fireworks, solitary sails, the Yangtze River and so on. -and it becomes a realistic picture that hides feelings in the landscape. Although not sentimental, it is more affectionate in the landscape. The poem does not directly express the reluctant attachment to friends, but through the disappearance of solitary sails, the long river and the long river stay by the river. In fact, every sentence is lyrical, arousing readers' endless aesthetic imagination and forming a meaningful poetic mood. From the above two examples, we can find that image can not be separated from artistic conception, "Mei" loses its unique meaning in poetry without the artistic conception of the whole poem, and "Lonely Sail" is separated from the artistic conception of the original poem and has nothing to do with leaving love as soon as possible.
Of course, not all image combinations can constitute artistic conception. For example, Bai Pu's "Qiu Si": "Sunset in an isolated village, light smoke from old trees, Western jackdaw in the west, a little flying gull shadow, green mountains and green waters, white grass, green leaves and yellow flowers." * * * lists twelve images, which vividly present a gorgeous autumn color map, but they are not full of deep affection and lack of "love and scenery" and "love and interest"
Related exercises:
Try to analyze the images and artistic conception in the following poems:
(1) Message for the absent Jia Dao.
When I asked your students under a pine tree, "my teacher," he replied, "went to pick herbs."
However, through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing? .
(2) Jiang Xue Liu Zongyuan
Hundreds of mountains have no birds, and thousands of paths have no footprints.
A boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold Jiang Xue.
Reference answer:
(1) This poem has three images: pine, mountain and cloud. Three images constitute a profound artistic conception: the old pine stands tall and the mountains are shrouded in clouds. I looked for the hermit and knew he was in the mountains, but I couldn't find him. These images imply that our hermit is otherworldly, and his whereabouts are hard to find, which also entrusts the author's yearning and melancholy; It even makes people feel that many things in life are beyond our power.
(2) There is only one image in this poem-Jiang Xue and Jiang Xue Jiang Xue. There are no traces of people or even birds. The characters in the poem and the old man in the hat constitute the far-reaching artistic conception of this poem: the environment and people set each other off, and the author's lonely and clean personality is fully exposed.