Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Imagery

Definition: an element of poetry which use descriptive language to describe all the sense clearly to the reader.
Ex:
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.
Signification: This element help the reader understand clearly what the author feeling and seeing. This technique allow us to become the author, feel what the author felt, see what the author saw. This technique will make the poem lively.

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