Space And Poem: The Analysis And Review Of The Issue On Image In Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics Of Space

This paper is divided into three parts which focuses on two main issues:One is how a nouveau image comes, the other is why the shadings of Bachelard’s the Poetics of Space can make a far-reaching influence on the criticism of the modern aesthetic experience?The first part gives the answer to the question "why we should find a’nouveau’ poetic image, and what’s the nouveau image means?" This issue pertains to two aspects:Firstly, what’s the difference between the new image and the classic one? Secondly, we should analyze the characteristics of the spatial images and the value of these characteristics in modern poetics. The specific analytic arguments in those issues should be done during the close-reading of the poetic texts:we have known and presumed that the classic studies on poetical images always treated images as realistic or mental entities/bodies, which were also the constructed objects, reflected by various categories such as shape and color. And they are also characterized as the mimesis and representations created by poets or many other authors. However, Bachelard think that the spatial images are not the passive objects which constructed by subjects. They penetrate different subjects and stimulate them to transfer their experience about the spaces.The second part would discuss the issue:How a nouveau and spatial image comes? In other word, how could we grasp this kind of poetic image? And, what’s the aesthetic meaning produced by the procedure of obtaining the spatial images? For Gaston Bachelard, such images, which shape our dialectical thinking about the self and the world, come from the mechanism of the material imagination and dynamic imagination. The imagination itself means a lot to Bachelard. For him, differing from traditionally defined imagination, imagination is not a exceptional capability only of the talented, but also a dreaming ability of the collectives who can share with each other.In the last part, I will articulate the reading ethics covered by the Poetics of Space. Reading-in-Space is not Reading-in-Time which is an absorbing reading. The process of Reading-in-Space is not only a process of Speaking, but also a process of shaping our dreams by logos.