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Imagery

Imagery. Imagery. A ny sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object. Experience comes to use largely through the senses….

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Imagery

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  1. Imagery

  2. Imagery Any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object

  3. Experience comes to use largely through the senses… Our experiences of a spring day, for instance, may consist partly of certain emotions we feel and partly of certain thoughts we think, but most of it will be a cluster of sense impressions.

  4. A poet seeking to express…. The experience of a spring day, therefore, provides a selection of sense impressions… Seeing blue sky and white clouds, budding leaves and daffodils Hearing robins and bluebirds singing in the early morning Smelling damp earth and blossoming tulips Feeling a fresh wind against one’s cheek

  5. The word imagery The word imagery often suggests a mental picture, something seen in the mind’s eye—and visual imagery is the kind of imagery that occurs most frequently in poetry. But an image may also represent:

  6. A sound (auditory imagery) A smell (olfactory imagery)

  7. A taste (gustatory imagery) A touch such as hardness, softness, wetness, heat, or cold (tactile imagery)

  8. An internal sensation such as hunger, thirst, fatigue, or nausea (organic imagery) A movement or tension in the muscles or joints (kinesthetic imagery)

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