The Expressive Forms of Natural Imagery in Chinese Poetry

Abstract

Lyric is a mainstream for Chinese ancient literature. Chinese sages have realized that the main emotion cannot be expressed truly and vividly only by simple language in Pre-Qin period. Moreover, language cannot express our thought completely, so we need to utilize specific images. “Image” in ancient poems has long remained at the level of “natural scenery”; everything rises and falls, so nothing fails to affect people’s feeling and inspiration. So this paper tries to illustrate the performance of natural images in Chinese poetry. The finding by analysis is that there are two main existing forms of images in poetry. One side is parallel existence, for example Parallel Existence of life Changes and social events; another side is contrast existence, such as contrast of four seasons and history. Papers will be mainly based on the argument from two aspects of parallel and contrast existence analysis.