Juxtaposition of nominal images comes from the characteristics of ancient Chinese which is not subject to analytical grammar and the great writing practice of poets in Tang Dynasty in pursuit of artistic conception of static state.

Based on the studies of Chinese affixation,this paper makes a quantitive and qualitative study of the Chinese affixation compared with the English affixation,and holds that the Chinese affixation is actually parataxis of word-formation and that the inflexibility of the Chinese syllables prevents affixation in English sense from appearing in Chinese.

The paper initiates from the three aspects of the essence of the image combination,the basic way of expressing the image combination and the skill of combining images,points out that a poem is composed of images and that a poem is formed in the process of combining,developing and transferring images,and finally reveals where the essence of a poem lies and where the realistic significance of .