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    From 001 to 100: One Hundred Poems Completed by Alexander Goldstein
    From 001 to 100: One Hundred Poems Completed by Alexander Goldstein
    From 001 to 100: One Hundred Poems Completed by Alexander Goldstein
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    From 001 to 100: One Hundred Poems Completed by Alexander Goldstein

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    Image thinking is a phenomenon when a concrete image intimates an abstract notion or viewpoint to express. In the sense, the term ‘image’ supposes the figurative imagery and its explanation, as well as an imaginative significance and its associations. To explain the image we use language while the idea of it reflects its abstract thought. As is well-known, language is an instrument of thinking, imagery makes a thought content. However, language is unable to express the idea or thought content directly; for this, it resorts to concrete imagery, one of the best ways of expression of which is poetry.
    Structure of the universe has come from three parts: images, numbers and principles/ideals. The word ‘image’ may be considered as external manifestation while the ‘number’ denotes the internal measuring, proportion and correlation of what is known as ‘ideal.’ Thus, there are numbers behind imagery, which can be true and false, while numbers are always changeable. When we speak of numbers we mean unfixed sort of them. For example, we usually say, literally: a dozen, a couple of something; seven or eight, about ten, more than one hundred and so forth.
    Category of ‘imagery’ is the most significant in poetry, the main purpose of which is to express the meaning of abstractions. Imagery, together with numbers, is the most fundamental instrument to represent poetic contents. First things are born to get then their images; upon getting their proper images, they multiply to possess their appropriate numbers. Since each and every image is a product of thought, we can find an image through contemplating an idea or ideal. For example, the intercourse or alternation of two opposite natural forces is represented by the image of motion, communication and great progress. In the universe of constant changes, there are myriads of things and matters with their various qualities and rules that can be handled well only through their opposite alternatives to bring a situation to the state of balance and proper result. This is the way to avoid one-sidedness, which is an equivalent of extremity and downfall in us.
    In addition, imagery represents a complete integral system reflected through the images and numbers to be more sophisticated throughout its long-term development and manifested in different schemes and diagrams, through some codes and symbols of which the traditional image thinking is reflected in full. These codes and symbols are information carriers, the key to the theory of knowledge and ontological philosophical system, combination of intuitive and abstract awareness.
    So, what the method of ‘image thinking’ is? Integrity of the system knowledge is one of the basic features of it, which is akin indeed to the feminine mind (correlation of the Yin power) in many respects. The qualities of the female intelligence and woman’s logic are exactly the qualities of the figurative thinking. The female head is full of common sense. Eventually, common sense and the practical mind are characteristics of women (Yin) rather than of men (Yang), who are more liable to take their feet off the ground and soar to impossible heights. This confirms that the female logic is highly personal, according to which the whole world represents the wholeness of being, entire structure with its certain mechanism of organization, which, in turn, consists of many smaller systems and configurations to be reformed and transformed according to circumstances.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexander Goldstein
    Release dateNov 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311222626
    From 001 to 100: One Hundred Poems Completed by Alexander Goldstein
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    Alexander Goldstein

    Alexander Goldstein, a graduate of the Far-Eastern University in Sinology, lived and worked in mainland China for a period as a translator/interpreter, a manager, and a martial arts' practitioner. A certified instructor of ‘Chang-quan’ (external-style boxing) and ‘Taiji-quan’ (internal-style boxing), he is a lecturer of Chinese culture and traditions at the Open University in Tel-Aviv. He also is the author of Lao-zi's "Dao-De Jing," Chan (Zen) masters' paradoxes, "The Illustrated Canon of Chen Family Taiji-quan," a Chinese novel and some other editions, which are available in print and electronic publishing at most online retailers published in English, Spanish and Russian. What makes his books so appealing is profound analysis and authority with which various strains of the vigorous Chinese culture are woven into a clear and useful piece of guidance for a business person who conducts the affairs with far-eastern counterparties and for a counsellor who develops strategies that enable leaders to position their organisations effectively.

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      From 001 to 100 - Alexander Goldstein

      From 001 to 100:

      One Hundred Poems Completed by Alexander Goldstein

      Published by Alexander Goldstein

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      Copyright 2015 Alexander Goldstein

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      Contents

      Author’s Note

      23 Steps off High Comedy Stage

      A Barkless Tree Trunk

      A Bookman's Hut

      A Company of Three

      A Declined Proposal

      A Eulogy on My Poetry

      A Failed Date

      A Fair Lady of My Dreams

      A Farewell Smile

      A Fish in a Ditch

      A Freeman Am I

      A Gamecock

      A Glossy Willow’s Short Story

      A Good Deal

      A Herder’s Song

      A Horned Sparrow

      A Hot Season

      A Lamp

      A Literary Man

      A Lotus Purity

      A Marketing Error

      A Parrot's Song

      A Pagoda on Head

      A Raid on the Sly

      A Ramble over the Hills

      A Remedy

      A Scorpion's Song

      A Soldier of Art

      A Song of One Who Drinks Like a Fish

      A Song of Release

      A Tainted Talent

      A True Hebrew Man

      A Veteran's Song

      A Warrior's Confession

      A Weekly Cycle

      A Young Nun’s Confession

      Above the Horizon

      Admiration

      Ageing

      Aggressive Humbleness

      Alaska: the Land of Gold and Adventure

      Algorithm of Creativity

      An Autumn Day

      An Egret's Choice

      An Ideal Residence of Mine

      An Interview on Ancient Wisdom

      An Orphan’s Sorrow

      Another Lucky Incarnation

      Arguments

      At Catching Forty Winks

      Avarice Never Dies

      Back and Forth

      Before Sunset

      Before the Departure

      Bitter Fruits

      Breeding Horses

      Bypass

      Chaotic Attractor

      Confession

      Crease Marks

      Cycle of Matter

      Dad’s Love in a Cottage When Hippie Young

      Daybreak of Parting

      Dedication to the Goldsmiths

      Discrimination

      Dog Eat Dog

      Enchantment

      Enviable Idleness

      Escape from Shadow

      Examination

      Failed to Pass

      Faith in the Triad

      Far Apart

      Faraway

      Fasting of the Mind

      Five Heirs

      For Edification

      Free-floating Mood

      Full Stop

      Fungi and Ferns

      Generation Gap

      Getting High at Independence Day

      Give over!

      Glory to a True Man!

      Go to Gourd

      Great Fishing

      Great Price or the Atonement

      Grief Remedy

      Groan in the Pines

      Happiness for All to Enjoy

      Having a Hangover

      Historical Quirks

      Home, Sweet Home

      Homesickness

      Horse Racing

      Hymn of Workers

      I'd Want

      I'm not a Writer, nor a Fighter, . . I'm an Old Man

      Illumination

      Imagery

      About the Author

      Endnote

      Author’s Note

      Image thinking is a phenomenon when a concrete image intimates an abstract notion or viewpoint to express. In the sense, the term ‘image’ supposes the figurative imagery and its explanation, as well as an imaginative significance and its associations. To explain the image we use language while the idea of it reflects its abstract thought. As is well-known, language is an instrument of thinking, imagery makes a thought content. However, language is unable to express the idea or thought content directly; for this, it resorts to concrete imagery, one of the best ways of expression of which is poetry.

      Structure of the universe has come from three parts: images, numbers and principles/ideals. The word ‘image’ may be considered as external manifestation while the ‘number’ denotes the internal measuring, proportion and correlation of what is known as ‘ideal.’ Thus, there are numbers behind imagery, which can be true and false, while numbers are always changeable. When we speak of numbers we mean unfixed sort of them. For example, we usually say, literally: a dozen, a couple of something; seven or eight, about ten, more than one hundred and so forth.

      Category of ‘imagery’ is the most significant in poetry, the main purpose of which is to express the meaning of abstractions. Imagery, together with numbers, is the most fundamental instrument to represent poetic contents. First things are born to get then their images; upon getting their proper images, they multiply to possess their appropriate numbers. Since each and every image is a product of thought, we can find an image through contemplating an idea or ideal. For example, the intercourse or alternation of two opposite natural forces is represented by the image of motion, communication and great progress. In the universe of constant changes, there are myriads of things and matters with their various qualities and rules that can be handled well only through their opposite alternatives to bring a situation to the state of balance and proper result. This is the way to avoid one-sidedness, which is an equivalent of extremity and downfall in us.

      In addition, imagery represents a complete integral system reflected through the images and numbers to be more sophisticated throughout its long-term development and manifested in different schemes and diagrams, through some codes and symbols of which the traditional image thinking is reflected in full. These codes and symbols are information carriers, the key to the theory of knowledge and ontological philosophical system, combination of intuitive and abstract awareness.

      So,

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