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Ktbg7368 AnApproachoheTranslaionofPoeicImage_开题报告Images play an important role in poetry. According to Arthur Waley, a great sinologist in the western country, images are the soul of poetry. In China, Hu Yinglin(胡应麟)，a scholar in Ming Dynasty believed that the true beauty of poetry lay mo..

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Images play an important role in poetry. According to Arthur Waley, a great sinologist in the western country, images are the soul of poetry. In China, Hu Yinglin(胡应麟)，a scholar in Ming Dynasty believed that the true beauty of poetry lay mostly in images. Nevertheless, the comprehension of images in poetry translation becomes a difficult point to many translators.

Despite the great difficulty in understanding images, scholars both at home and abroad have made significant achievements in translating ancient Chinese poems. Xie Tianzhen, professor of Shanghai International Studies University, refers to dealing with cultural images by means of omission and misinterpretation. Besides, he holds that "cultural images should be presented to the largest extent in target languages to achieve the goal of cultural communication". (谢天振，1999: 181)

Image is a significant category of Chinese ancient poetics as well as a favorite subject in the western world. It indicates a verbal expression that evokes a mental picture or a physical sensation, not necessarily visual (Frazer, 101). People from different culture speaking different languages may share the same or similar images, s well as conceive diverse images with diverse nature. Therefore, without certain shared knowledge, it is impossible to understand the images and the meaning imposed on the images in another language or another culture.

This inadequacy of the shared knowledge makes it necessary to compensate the message when translated into another language to render fully (or comparatively fully) understanding. The compensation the receiver or reader needs to identify and acquire the meaning of the message derives from intersexuality. It is translation that offers different languages an access to intertextuality (Qin Wenhua, 157)

Ezra Pound, one of the initiators of Imagism, puts forward the term "imagism". As a noted Imagist, he defines imagery as "an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time". (T.S. Eliot, 1954:4)

Many scholars in China have also spared no efforts to make studies on image and its translation. For example, Ren Yingchun(任迎春)copes with literary images in Chinese Classical Poetry from the perspective of Relevance Theory. She divides images into three categories according to communicative process and dynamic context. They are images with similar cognitive contexts, images with different contexts, and images with no corresponding contexts. She believes the real meaning can be found through searching for the optimal relevance.

Another scholar Tan Furong(覃芙蓉)talked about image reconstruction in Chinese-English Poetry Translation from the perspective of hermeneutics theory pioneered by Hans George Gadamer. She came up with "prejudice" and "fusion of horizon". So the translator will first interpret the original image with his "prejudice" before reconstructing the image in the poem. Then the translator will consider readers' "prejudice". The author of the thesis summarizes four "prejudices" including imagism, cultural salvation, knowledge structure, and readers' expectation. The author illustrated how they affect Pound's image reconstruction by adopting a case study.

All these previous studies are enlightening, helping us learn more about images and image translation. This thesis draws inspiration from them as well. However, less attention has been paid to the use of Reception Aesthetics in image translation. This thesis deals with image translation in Tao Yuanming's poetry, adopting the theory of Reception Aesthetics and introducing several translation strategies on translating poetic images. It is humbly hoped that it will contribute to the solution of image translation.

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1. Introduction

1.1. Research Background

1.2. Research Object

2. Literature Review

2.1. The Definition of Poetic Image

2.2. The Classification of Poetic Image

3. Poets' Intent and Their Ways of Using Images

3.1. Satire

3.2. Metaphor

3.3. Concealing his real thought

3.4. Social effects