Using Poetry as a Context: On the Imaging of Poetic Context in Wang Changling’s Poetry

Words and images are two completely different forms of artistic expression, and there are distinct differences between them. Wang Changling, as the “Holy Hand of Qijue”, broke the boundaries between text and image with his keen creativity and unique aesthetics of Qijue. In the history of Chinese poetry, “using poetry to manipulate the lens” is not only seen in Wang Changling. However, Wang Changling’s poetic images are the perfect practice of his theory of physical environment, situation and artistic conception in his work “Shi Ge”. Based on the construction of Wang Changling’s visualized poetic environment, this paper analyzes the application and performance of the visualized poetic environment in Wang Changling’s poetry, and probes into the significance of the visualized poetic environment to Wang Changling’s poetry creation.