The Images Of Animals In Book Of Songs

Book of Songs makes poetry a kind of independent literary genre, containing all the possibilities. We can find the headstream of all forms in Book of Songs. In the complex process of knowing and understanding the natural, the ideological and the spiritual world, image becomes an important approach of literary expression. All the things around the human being, for example, bird, animal, insect and fish, are undoubtedly the proper and convenient choices. We can obtain emotional communion from the material images of animals. We can also upgrade the animal image to an esthetic level of symbol and symbolization. The images of animals in Book of Songs are very active. The image notes the change of knowing and the enrichment of spirit through the evolution and development of the relationship of meaning and visual. The world needs explanation. We need a new form shining in the spiritual life. The relationship of meaning and visual becomes stable and continued. It stands not for the emulational pre-history life, but for the resource of imagination and more mature literary expressing.