The Spree Of Image

Because of the distinctive style of writing, Lihe is considered to be an important poet in the Middle-Tang Dynasty. The image in his poetry is a necessary ingredient to build up his status in the field of literature. In Lihe's poetry, the selection of image is very abroad and unearthly, including the heaven, the world and the hell. The image exhibits the human nature warmth of ghost, the gorgeous scene in the heaven and the myth and reality in the world.At the same time, the image of Lihe's poetry shows, in general, a lively, vivid and flowery characteristic. The unique image is the main factor forming the unique sad-pretty style. In the construction of the image group, Lihe used a staggered pattern. In this pattern, there is the cold-warmth color contrast, the light and shade contrast and a visual model crossed with hearing and touch. The clear contrasts show the bizarre and motley characteristic of Lihe's poetry.Like many poets, behind Lihe's fullness of the image, there are many kinds of ups and downs of feelings. These feelings include: the worriment before life's vanish and heaven and earth's forever, the anxiety before nothing achieved and time flying, the resentfulness caused by the disregard of his faculty and his disaffection, the depravation mood born of. abandonment and sultriness. There are thousands of feelings in Lihe's poetry. The image of Lihe's poetry is not only the expression of his feelings, but also the representation of his lifetime which was full of frustrations. Through the image of Lihe's poetry, we can learn that a poet who came down in the world once had great ambition when he just displayed his talent for the first time. When he could not participate in the highest imperial examinations because of his father's default, he sighed with emotion that no one attached importance to his faculty. When he was down and out, he had a very miserable time. After many kinds of frustration, he fell in despair and died with his heart filled with gloom. The tragedy of Lihe's lifetime enhances the witchery of the image in his poetry, thus brings more artistic charm.