Imagery ♥

Definition:

- A combination of words in a poem which helps the reader gets the images and feels it (sounds and smells). It makes the poem more vivid by using figurative languages such as metaphors.

Example:

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.

(T.S Elliot)

Significance: It is important because the reader can easy to understand the poem when they visualize the images and feel the sounds in order to get the message that the author was trying to send.