A Study on Poetic Metaphor in Tang-Song Poetry on Birds

Metaphors are often applied in poetry to depict and present the subjective emotions and thoughts of the poet.Poetic metaphor in poems is a special literary rhetorical, which at the same time serves as a stylistic feature.Compared with straightforward writing techniques, poetic metaphors are more capable of allowing people to fathom subtle and profound meanings.As a kind of unconventional metaphor, poetic metaphor is unique in its originality, authenticity under the cover of impossibility, aesthetics, interestingness and interactivity, and extensibility.There are many poems about flying birds with metaphorical meaning in the splendid Tang and Song poems, which usually reflect higher-level information including cultural connotation, imagery, psychology, value orientation, etc.This part can be called the content of birds' metaphor.Based on previous research, this paper takes the bird imagery in Tang and Song poetry as the research object and deeply explores the application of poetic metaphor and its artistic charm.This finds that the metaphorical meaning conveyed by the birds is created by the context.It emphasizes the cognitive process by which the metaphor is produced and the experiential process by which the readers understand it; Poetic metaphors can stimulate readers' imagination and lead them to explore and understand the meanings and connotations behind the metaphors; The progress of human cognition makes the poetic metaphorical meaning of birds constantly enriched, and the application field of bird imagery expand.