象徵技巧在現代詩中，並非準確指向一個明確的目標，必須透過情境的烘托、語句的鋪陳不斷修正才能讓讀者接近作者所想。本研究選擇在現代詩壇裡，具代表性之中生代學院派詩人楊佳嫻的作品，以精讀的方式分別分析其四本詩集中的詩作。透過詳細的剖析，明確提出象徵主義在現代詩的四個面向「音樂性」、「圖像性」、「結構性」、「思想性」的影響，並整理意象使用中分為情境、物體、意念、舉動四類。本文試圖藉由以上分析，梳理出現代詩中的象徵手法運用，進而提供現代詩創作者與研究者有更多發展的可能。

In modern poetry, a symbol does not precisely point to a clear object. It must be set through the context and atmosphere of sentences to bring readers closer to the author's thinking. This research takes ‘closed-reading’ to analyze the text. Through Yang Chia-Hsien's poems, we refreshed four aspects of modern poetry—musical, graphical, structural and ideological expressions. The study attempted to clarify how poets utilize the symbol and how it works in modern poetry. Taking Yang Chia-Hsien's poems as example, it was found that situation, object, sensation and action have high frequency of poetic use.