图像叙事是自古希腊以来就有的一个修辞术语,长期存在于西方文学传统中。它有着多种多样的定义,不过,最基本的一点:它是关于语言文字与图像关系的一个术语。菲茨杰拉德深受西方文学中图像叙事传统,尤其是图像叙事大师济慈的影响。他在《人间天堂》中成功地运用文字呈现视觉的再现,生动地刻画了人物形象和人物所处的环境。这一技巧对作品情节的发展和主题的表达也有着不可忽视的作用。 Image narration is a rhetorical term that has existed since ancient Greece and has long existed in the Western literary tradition. It has a variety of definitions, however, the most basic point: it is a term about the relationship between language and images. Fitzgerald was greatly influenced by the image narrative tradition in Western literature, especially Keats, the image narrator. He successfully used visual representation of words in “paradise on earth” to depict vividly the characters ’images and characters’ surroundings. This technique also plays an important role in the development of the plot and the expression of the theme.