A Study on the Image of Poetry of the Tang Dynasty

意象是詩的主體，沒有意象也就沒有詩，我們可以說意象 是詩歌主要營構的重心，它一方面關涉詩歌創作時作者融攝心 物的手法(此即詩學理論之創作論)，一方面涵蓋詩歌歷史發展 上，語文符碼(code)的承襲與套用(此即詩歌比興傳統的歷史演 變，包括成語、典故、代詞)。從意象我們可以一窺詩歌語文結 構所彰顯的藝術之姿，同時也可欣賞到作者主觀才性所展示的 生命之姿，更進一步還可以觀察到詩歌歷史流變中的文化特 質。Image is the most important part of poetry. No poem can be made without image. Therefore,image could be weighed as the composition center of poems. It, on the one hand, concerns the author`s ability of absorbing and blending the objects of mind in composing poems (that is the composition point of poetic theory),and,on the other hand,contaions the inheritance and application of language code in the development of poetic history (that is the historic evolution of metaphor and simile tradition of poetry, including idioms, allusions and pronouns) From image we could glimpse the artistic style manifested by linguistic construction of poetry and, meantime, appreciate the life style presented by author`s subjective talent and, furthermore, observe the cultural characteristics of poetry in historic transition. “Image” is a term which has been often discussed in many of Chinese and Western discourses but not yet had a specific definition through the Chinese and Western combination. So, in this project we make it the frist mission to attempt defining the connotation of “image” between Chinese and Western discourses. The history of Chinese poetry is so profound and vast that not until did Tang Dynasty start to make divergence ends in uniformity and represent a generalization of poetic arts. Thus,the second mission of this project is to trace back to the historic tradition of the images poetry of Tang Dynasty has an unique gusto represented by its epoch and authors. Therefore, the third mission of this project is to focus some particular images so as to catch the social nature and poets` characters implied in the images of the Tang-Dynasty`s poetry. Sum up, this project aims to manifest the historic features and great artistic value of metaphor and simile tradition of Chinese poetry by the image achievement of the Tang Dynasty`s poetry