Quartet: Distinctive Voice And Permanent Melody

Li Ying is a poet owning unique artistic talent and personality in contemporary poetic history. As an aesthetic being, the viewpoint to tread the images as the poetic standard and put emphasis on imagination, and the thought to express truth, kindness, virtue and the poem's personal force make Li Ying become a poetic phenomenon which has the value worth following and consulting and has the significance on text and culture. From the perspective of image, the paper adopted Intentional Criticism and Psychological Criticism to return the image space and emotional world to their original states. At the same time, the paper made a systematic exposition of interactive relationship and essential relation between images and themes, images and aesthetic consciousness. Of all the images, the paper selected four principal ones having representative meanings and have them macro-analyzed and micro- mastered.The paper consists in three parts:The first part arranged and criticized the research background of image and its current state, then put forward and restricted images intension and extension. In this process, the part expounded and studied the image classification combination, imagelization and some other related subjects. Next, Li Ying's image world was classified and entirely discussed. Naturally, the four principal images, which are bird, fish, stone and tree, were macro-analyzed and appreciated. Finally, this part sorted out the three main patterns of image formation, such equal metaphors, center images and group images.The second part caught the specialization of four principal images which are different from the other poets. The paper analyzed the four images one by one from four points: I'm proud for I'm a tree, quiet individual saying, Li Ying's other aspect nameless emotion and life-spirit emerging from water, so that the four principal images could show and frame their meanings.The last part discussed the relationship between image and aesthetic consciousness existing between mission and life consciousness. The paper believed that mission consciousness is mainly embodied by the following two sides including soldier's consciousness and praising feelings, caring society and missing hometown. The life consciousness is mainly embodied by staying in the western nature and singing life, the conversation between life and death. From the diachronic view, Li Ying is always making great efforts on the two kinds of consciousness and tries to keep them balance on the inner harmony.