“意象”这一术语,通常运用于诗歌批评。意象是诗歌最小的艺术结构单位,是诗人的主观情思与被描写的客观或想象的景物的结合体。所以把握了意象及意象间的联系,也就把握了整个作品的形象体系和思想内涵。对小说而言,最基本的结构单位是人物,最重要的是人物行为以及人与人关系连缀的情节。小说虽也状物写景,但一般是为交代环境、塑造人物和运转情节服务的,并不具有独立的分析价值和意义。然而,小说与诗歌又有互相打通的一面。不少现代小说挪移诗歌的象征手法,创造出一系列 The term “imagery” is usually applied to poetry criticism. Image is the smallest artistic unit of poetry, a combination of the poet’s subjective feelings and the described objective or imagined scenery. Therefore, grasping the connection between imagery and image, it also grasps the image system and thought connotation of the whole work. For fiction, the most basic unit of structure is the character, the most important being the character’s behavior and the affair linked with people. Although the novel is also a kind of scenery, it generally does not have an independent analytical value and meaning to account for the environment, shaping figures and working plots. However, novels and poetry have another open up side. Many modern novels divert the symbolic practices of poetry to create a series