Abstract:Emily Dickinson is an outstanding American poet in the nineteenth century. She is good at using the unique imagery and metaphor to express her passion to the poetry and the pursue to the truth. She regards the poetry as a kind of complex relationship which consists of the imagery, rhythm and sounds. This paper mainly focuses on the concept of image to explore the different stages in Emily Dickinson's image world and the concrete manifestation of images in her poetry. According to her growing experience, her image world is divided into three stages. She was interested in the poetry when she was a child, and she was growing gradually in her own poetic world. Her unique growing experience makes her have the ability to use the different images to express her emotions and the view of the social reality. It also shows that the imagery poetry of Emily Dickinson has a vital status in the development of imagist poetry.

Keywords: Emily Dickinson; poetry; image

中文摘要:艾米莉•狄金森是十九世纪美国杰出的诗人，她擅长于运用独特的意象和隐喻以表现她对诗歌的激情以及对真理的追求。她认为诗歌是一种由意象、节奏和声音构成的复杂关系。本文主要针对意象这一概念，探索艾米莉•狄金森意象世界的不同阶段以及意象在其诗歌中的具体表现形式。根据她的成长经历，狄金森的意象世界可以分为三个阶段。狄金森小时候就对诗歌很感兴趣，她在属于她自己的诗歌世界里慢慢地成长。她独特的成长经历使她能够用不同的意象来表达自己的情感和对社会现实的看法。文章同样体现了艾米莉•狄金森的意象诗歌在意象派诗歌发展中至关重要的地位。

关键词：艾米莉•狄金森；诗歌；意象