《毛主席给陈毅同志谈诗的一封信》给予我们的教育是很大的,也是多方面的。关于诗的写作,从思想方法到表现形式,都有英明的论述,丰富了马克思主义文艺理论的宝库,指出了我国诗歌发展的康庄大道。毛主席反复教导我们说:“诗要用形象思维”。我们认为这就是说,在诗的创作过程中,是要用形象来思维的。自然这不是否认思维有抽象作用,也不是说在创作过程中完全排除抽象思维,只是说主要是形 “A letter from Chairman Mao to Comrade Chen Yi about poetry” The education given to us is great and manifold. With regard to the writing of poem, from the method of thinking to the form of expression, there is a brilliant explanation, enriching the treasure house of Marxist theory of literature and art, and pointing out the broad road of our country’s poetry development. Chairman Mao repeatedly taught us that “poetry should use the image of thinking.” We think this means that in the creation of poetry, we should use the image to think. It is not natural to deny that thinking has an abstract effect. Nor does it mean that we completely exclude abstract thinking in the creative process,