Poetry is essentially to express people's feelings. This kind of emotion, as a person's inner experience, is invisible and inaudible. In order to write this emotion into poetry and further convey it to readers, the poet must express it with the help of external things that can be seen, heard and touched. In poetry, this organic combination of internal emotion and external object forms the "image" of poetry. Therefore, the so-called "image", as the name implies, is composed of "meaning" and "image". "Meaning" refers to the emotional content and "image" refers to the external form.
There are many kinds of "meanings" transformed into "images", and there are as many kinds of "meanings" as there are feelings. There are various "images" transformed into "images", which are mainly divided into three types: character images, event images and physical images. For example, in Xu Zhimo's Poem Song of Annala-A Gift for Japanese Girls, the "image" is mainly the image of Japanese girls that the author is familiar with, and in Gu Cheng's A Boat Tired, the "image" is mainly
The same meaning can have different images. This has two meanings. First, in a poem, the author uses different "images" to express his "meaning", such as the arc of Gu Cheng: birds turn around quickly in the high wind/teenagers pick up a coin/vines stretch out due to fantasy/the back of the waves rises due to contraction. Second, different poets use different words? Image expresses the same or similar meaning.
? After careful analysis, every poem has its own "image", even if it is a poem that expresses the mind directly, such as Chen Ziang's "Youzhou Tower": Where are the lost years in front of me? Behind me, where are the future generations? . Only the boundless universe, boundless, can't stop the tears full of sadness. We can still understand "image" by reading. The difference between a poem and another poem lies in their respective "images", in the number and layout of "images"; There is no difference between poetry and poetry in that everyone should have an image. It can be said that "image" is the basic language of poetry. Any poet, whether he is clearly aware of it or not, uses the language of "image" consciously or unconsciously when communicating with the outside world. This is inevitable, and it is a law that does not depend on human will. If you want to write poetry, you must master the basic language of "image". Through the accumulation of time, make its inventory rich and substantial, learn to use it to conceive and express. "Image" is a basic concept and the most important concept of poetry, and it is the essential feature that distinguishes poetry from other literary genres.
People often say that language is the material of literature and poetry is written in language, but the language here is the language of "image". We say that "image" is the basic language of poetry, and this is its significance. If there is any difference between poets and poets, it is the difference; If there is any secret to writing poetry, it is mainly here.
Everyone knows a joke. A man climbed the Great Wall. He was excited about poetry and shouted, "Ah, Great Wall, how long you are!" " Another publication published a poem "Looking at the Sea", which began: "The sea is so big that I can't see the edge." These things, the author is lyrical and expressing an emotion, but his "meaning" is not poetry, because he has not found a suitable "image". The so-called lyricism has become a naked call.
If the above situation is called "intentionally without image", then there is another situation that can be said to be "with image without image", that is, an object without emotion is also not a poem. For example, many popular riddles are vivid and accurate descriptions of things, which are written in verse and called poems, but they are not poems.
He cries when you cry/laughs when you laugh/can be seen on the front/can't be found on the back. (answer: mirror)
An overpass is tall/colorful and beautiful/has been hanging to the horizon after the rain/pedestrians and cars can't get on it. (Answer: Rainbow)
Let's make an analogy. In Journey to the West, there are seventy-two changes in the Monkey King. The 72 images it changed can be compared to the "images" of poetry, and these 72 "images" actually have only one meaning: monkeys.
Ai Qing said: "Poetry is a living sculpture of the mind." This sentence provides a key for us to understand the concept of image. The so-called image, like a "living sculpture", shows the human mind intuitively.
Some people have written poems all their lives, but they have not grasped the essence of poetry "image" and will never become poets. Poets are different from people who write poems. Some people write poems because they don't understand the language and thinking in images, and use "images" to express what they don't understand. As a result, the poems they wrote are not poems, and such people will never become poets. Students can also use this standard to see. Poems published in many journals, especially those published by middle school students, are at best divided lyric prose. Knowing "image" means knowing poetry, which also enables us to consciously write real poetry.