Imagery is a key tool authors use when writing a poem. When authors use imagery it helps the reader see what is going on in the poem. It gives the reader a mental picture that can change as the poem progresses. Imagery uses all of the senses: sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste. In the poems “ The Bean Eaters,” We Real Cool,” and “miss rosie” imagery is used to touch the reader’s sense of sight.. The use of descriptive words and maybe even a picture with the poem is how imagery is defined. It is the most important thing about a poem, without imagery there wouldn't be definition or a mental picture.
“The Bean Eaters,” written by Gwendolyn Brooks mainly strikes the reader’s sight. The poem is about a group of poor elderly people who rent out a back room and come together like a family casually to eat beans. “Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware,”
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(lines 3-4) describes the utensils they eat with and the plates they eat on, also describing how poor they are. In lines 7 and 8 it describes how the old couple in the room have a routine and follow it every day. This poem it a very accurate description of the use of imagery dealing with sight. In the poem “We Real Cool,” by Gwendolyn Brooks imagery isn't vividly described but it is very important.
To emphasize the use imagery in the poem the author uses a lot of repetition. Throughout the entire poem the word “We” is used to describe that there is more than one person doing something. “We Real Cool, We Left School,” (lines 1-2) are the first two lines in the poem and it already describes that the people in the poem are young and they are bad. “We Real Cool” is a good example of how little you can describe but can still have imagery.
The final poem “miss rosie” written by Lucille Clifton has the best use of imagery out of all three of these poems. The whole poem gives the reader a vivid description of an old, senile, African American woman. Lines 13-15 give the reader the image of how old and is and lines 9-10 tells you how she is senile. Even Though the imagery does not directly tell the reader that she is old and senile, the use of descriptive words describes it perfectly. The rest of the poem gives you the entire image of the woman and tells you how the speaker respects her and helps
her. All of these poems are amazing at the use of imagery. The authors wanted the readers of their poems to have a vivid description of what was going on in the poem. “The Bean Eaters,” “We Real Cool,” and “miss rosie” all give the reader different aspect of imagery. Imagery is an amazing way to keep a poem moving and give it depth and all of these poems authors are amazing at doing this.
Authors use many different types of imagery in order to better portray their point of view to a reader. This imagery can depict many different things and often enhances the reader’s ability to picture what is occurring in a literary work, and therefore is more able to connect to the writing. An example of imagery used to enhance the quality of a story can be found in Leyvik Yehoash’s poem “Lynching.” In this poem, the imagery that repeatably appears is related to the body of the person who was lynched, and the various ways to describe different parts of his person. The repetition of these description serves as a textual echo, and the variation in description over the course of the poem helps to portray the events that occurred and their importance from the author to the reader. The repeated anatomic imagery and vivid description of various body parts is a textual echo used by Leyvik Yehoash and helps make his poem more powerful and effective for the reader and expand on its message about the hardship for African Americans living
Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans”, Regina Barreca’s “Nighttime Fires”, John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem”, and John Donne’s “Song” all demonstrate excellent use of imagery in their writing. All of the authors did a very good job at illustrating how the use of imagery helps the reader understand what the author’s message is. However, some of the poems use different poetic devices and different tones. In Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans” and Regina Barreca’s “Nighttime Fires”, both poems display a good use of personification. However in John Donne’s “Song” and John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem, they differ in the fact that the tone used in each poem contrasts from each other.
There are multiple examples of visual imagery in this poem. An example of a simile is “curled like a possum within the hollow trunk”. The effect this has is the way it creates an image for the reader to see how the man is sleeping. An example of personification is, “yet both belonged to the bush, and now are one”. The result this has is how it creates an emotion for the reader to feel
1) This quote is an example of imagery because it uses figurative language to describe what New York is like late at night. As well as it uses words
Imagery is when the author presents a mental image through descriptive words. One prime example of imagery that the author uses is in paragraph 3; where she tells of a moment between a man and a woman. In this narration she states the time, year, outfit of each character described, and what the female character was doing. These details might come across as irrelevant, or unnecessary, but this is Didions way of showing what the blueprint of notebook it. Using imagery reinforces the foundation of the essay, and what the essay’s mission was.
Describing a house, a tree, or even opening a package are all very good times to use imagery to convey an image that readers can visualize in their minds. “Built of cinder blocks and was painted shocking pink. The principal tree on the place was a tall power pole sprouting transformers; it stood a few feet from the canal and threw a pleasant shade across the drive.” This example of visual imagery helps to visualize the surroundings that the writing piece takes place. Describing a main item in the story or essay is another good use for visual imagery. “The pot was handsome, and the tree looked like a miniature version of the classic oasis scene in the desert. When the plant was delivered, a small chameleon arrived with it and soon made the living
Imagery is when the author uses detail to paint a picture of what’s happening. This is shown when Kendra is looking out of the window, “...fixed her gaze on a particular tree, following it as it slowly approached, streaked past, and then gradually receded behind her..” (1). This is imagery because you can imagine the tree flying past. These literary devices help deepen the plot of the
Imagery is made up of the five senses, which are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The first sense of sight is seen throughout the whole poem, specifically in the first two lines, “I had the idea of sitting still/while others rushed by.” This sight she envisions is so calm and still and the perfect example of appreciating the little things that life has to offer. Through the use of these terse statements, she allows it to have more meaning than some novels do as a whole.
The use of imagery is very commonly used in fictional literary work, especially poems. Imagery according to Crowder Collage Introduction to Literature’s glossary, “The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work,” (1991). The definition of imagery is rather vague by itself. It is very enlightening on the other hand when the term image is defined, “A word or series of words that refers to any sensory experience (usually sight, although also sound smell, touch or taste). An image is a direct or literal recreation of physical experience and adds immediacy to literary language,” (Gioia 1991).The imagery in Chana Bloch’s “Tired Sex” is a wonderfully helpful in communicating the poem’s general theme.
Imagery is a key part of any poem or literary piece and creates an illustration in the mind of the reader by using descriptive and vivid language. Olds creates a vibrant mental picture of the couple’s surroundings, “the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood/ the
The writer uses imagery, because he wants to let the readers into his mind. By describing the scene for the readers, makes the readers fell like they were there. Therefore, it gives us a better ability to emphasize with him.
Imagery is one of the many ways Edgar Allen Poe used to convey his message. At the beginning of the poem, the reader can instantly recognize imagery. A man is sitting in his study trying to distract himself from the sadness of a woman who has left him.
Imagery in literature provides the writer with an instrument for establishing a viewpoint or perspective. The author can use an unlimited amount of symbols, similes, and metaphors that produce an atmosphere for the reader to visualize the story effectively. In the poem "Daddy," written by Sylvia Plath, the author utilizes numerous clusters of images to represent the fury and wrath of a crazed woman haunted by her father's frightening and domineering disposition. Plath uses this imagery to depict the emotional chaos controlling fathers inflict on their offspring.
Another rhetorical strategy incorporated in the poem is imagery. There are many types of images that are in this poem. For example, the story that the young girl shares with the boy about drowning the cat is full of images for the reader to see:
When the writer successfully creates imagery, the reader should be able to have a clear mental picture of what is happening and feel as if they are looking through the narrator’s eyes. William Faulkner displays excellent imagery which helps the reader better understand the real meaning of the story. Faulkner’s imagery of the people, places, and things in his stories, creates a painting type image, which truly titillates the senses.