Fifth: the expressive image, part two — images and imagination
Point 5 of 8 — Lesson 1: The Poetic Experience, Its Elements and Organic Artistic UnityQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
05Fifth: the expressive image, part two — images and imagination
The standards of a good image
That it befrom the inspiration of the inner sense and an echo of it, not built onmere outward perception.
That itsmaterial be consistent with the feeling that inspired it.
That it have anorganic function in the experience — workingin the forward movement of its growth or in completing the artistic creation until it reaches its aim of delight and conviction.
That it becloser to suggesting the idea than to stating it outright.
The types of image
The partial image: brings outa small idea through simile, borrowed image (istiʿārah) or kināyah.
The total image: it representsthe artistic framework of the poet's psychological experience. Of it there isthe conventional kind which poets used most, andthe inventive kind which relies on creating new relations founded on delicacy of perception and penetration of insight.
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