Image--Symbol-文学原理教程课件.pptVIP

Image Symbol Image 意象 ---- The representation of sense experience through figurative language. One image is frequently the result of the cooperation of the several senses. Visual ---- Pertaining to sight Olfactory ---- Pertaining to smell Tactile ---- Pertaining to touch Auditory ---- Pertaining to hearing Gustatory ---- Pertaining to taste Eg: Spring Visual sense ---- Green grass trees Auditory sense ---- Twittering birds whispering brooks Olfactory sense ---- Sweet flowers fresh air Gustatory sense ---- Delicious fruits vegetables available in spring Tactile sense ---- Supple branches twigs Kinesthetic sense ---- Fluttering movement of butterflies in the air Image ---- the soul Of Language ---- the body Poetry Imagery ---- A meaningful whole formed by all the images in a poem. Functions: ① Creating the atmosphere; ② Providing an internal pattern; ③ Focusing the theme of the poem. ① Creating the atmosphere Eg: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door ---- Only this, and nothing more.” ---- The first stanza in Poe’s “The Raven” ② Providing an internal poem. Eg: “Because I could not stop for Death ---- He kindly stopped for me ---- The Carriage held but just Ourselves ---- And Immortality. We slowly drove ---- He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility ---- We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess ---- in the Ring ---- We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain ---- We passed the Setting Sun ---- Or rather ---- He passed Us ---- The Dews drew quivering and chill ---- For only Gossamer, my Gown ---- My Tippet ---- only Tulle ---- We pause