Interpretation Of Images In Woolf's Poetic Fictions

Virginia Woolf has been known as an outstanding British modernist novelist. She was also honored as a master of stream-of-consciousness, whose achievements could be compared with Joyce."stream-of-consciousness fiction"has had great impact on the western modern literature. Most of Woolf's works showed strong poetic features.As a creative writer and a pioneer of the new literature era, Woolf has always believed that art should transcend the shackles of reality, Woolf uses the special image to symbolize characters'complex emotions, which reminds us of what Mallarme's"analogy"between images, Ezra Pound's equation of emotions and Thomas Elliot's searching for objective correlatives of various thoughts. Using image to symbolize is a key method for Woolf to reflect characters'feelings and render characters'consciousness, thus shaping vivid characters in her novels. This also becomes the unique charm of Woolf's novels.Introduction provides the general information about Virginia Woolf and her works, and then focuses on Woolf's poetic belief and its embodiment in her works.Chapter One explains the relations between images and poetic novels. It begins with the origin of poetic fiction and Woolf's ideas about poetic novels then reveals the function of images in forming the poetic style.Chapter Two offers a detailed analysis of the images embodied in the novel, mainly manifesting the esthetic form of images featured by the poetic attributes in Woolf's works. It includes motif images and figure images. These images contribute to the poetic and romantic traits of the theme,as well as shapes vivid figures in her novels。Chapter Three demonstrates the causes of Woolf's unique style of writing- the abundant use of the characteristic images, and provides some possible factors such as her life experience and the influence of Post-impressionism, etc.