Good or bad image.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the American poet Pound, the core of British and American modernist poetry creation methods, defined the image in Several No's of Imagism: "Image is the synthesis of thoughts and feelings in an instant". Image is not an ordinary image, but an image combining subject and object. On the one hand, imagist poets emphasize objective things and express subjectivity through images of objective things. They try to avoid changing the shape and nature of objective things and give them some symbolic meaning, which is not an ordinary metaphor. On the other hand, imagist poets emphasize that describing objective things must express subjective feelings and experiences and give them life and emotion. The poet's subjective passion and objective image are integrated into a complete synthesis.

For example, the poem "Fog" by American poet Sambo: "Fog is coming/kitten's feet/it is sitting/exploring the harbor and city/bending silently/then moving forward" is based on an accurate image: fog is "kitten's feet". The poet did not give a subjective and lyrical description of the fog, nor did he comment. However, his unique softness and mystery of fog melted into "kitten's feet", which made his poems implicit, concentrated, concise and full of emotion, and opened up a new road for the emergence and development of modernist poetry in the 20th century.

Imagist poets, on the other hand, overemphasize images as instant scenes and feelings in life, emphasize the role of realism, and ignore the importance of thinking and other factors in the creative process, which limits the expression of subjective feelings in poetry. Imagism also has its limitations, which restricts the poet's creativity. He can only write some beautiful short poems with narrow artistic conception and monotonous content, lacking grand verve and rich thoughts and feelings, and it is difficult to reflect the vast, rich and ever-changing society.