The Discrimination Of "Affective Image" And "Symbol"

"Affective Image" is one of the most important composition manners for ancient poems. This kind of Affective Image with Chinese cultural identity is completely different from Symbol in western poetry. Through the study, the different points of "Affective Image " and Symbol are mainly concentrated in three aspects:the creative motivation, the art functionality and the essence of creative approach. From the nature of ancient Chinese culture,"Affective Image" is a special writing technique, essentially an anthropomorphic approach which was originating from the idea of "Harmony between the heaven and human". The essence of the Western symbolism is a technique, this technique use one thing to represent another or use specific matters for abstract things, thereafter evolved into a unique creative approach in western poetry. Actually, the difference of "Affective Image" and symbol is rooted from the differences of the East-West cultural. Different cultural identities will inevitably affect the way of poetry writing, these cultural differences decide the differences of poetry writing and thinking. The ancient Chinese culture emphasizes the overall thinking, and the western culture is the focus thinking. So make the discrimination of "Affective Image" and symbol as the entry point of the eastern and western cultures, it is not only can get a better understanding of the characteristics of eastern and western poetry, but also can explore the similarities and differences in cultural identity, aesthetics, the ways of thinking and deeper psychological of eastern and western, thus conducive to promoting the development of Chinese and western poetics.