Similar to traditional Chinese poetics, the poetic semantics of the New Criticism also emphasizes the "Debate on the Relationship Between Words and Meaning," especially the formation of poetry and its characteristics. The theorists of the New Criticism distinguish the dictionary meaning and the second meaning of words, which corresponds to the distinction between the literal meaning and connotation in Chinese poetics. Their discussions on how the literal meaning leads to connotation, i.e., "the second meaning," and discussions on the metaphorical value of images, are similar to those in Chinese poetics, which hold that meaning and image, emotion and scene should be combined. Besides "tenor" and "vehicle" in a metaphor, W. K. Wimsatt further puts forward "the third class," "a concept that cannot be expressed in language," which has the same spirit as the "relish" besides "word" and "meaning" emphasized by Yang Wanli (杨万里) and others in traditional Chinese poetics.