Imagery

• Definition

     

          Imagery is an element of poetry which is used to evoke mental images, figures, and visual senses. Imagery refers to the pictures which we perceive with our eyes, ears, nose, skin, and tongue. Imagery allows the poets show us instead of just telling what they feel.

• Examples

         A touch of cold in the Autumn night -
         I walked abroad,
         And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
         Like a red faced farmer.
         I did not stop to speak, but nodded,
        And round about were the wistful stars
        With white faces like town children.

• Significance

          Imagery allows us to see and feel what the poets see and feel. Imagery helps us to have a better and clear understanding about poems, the meaning and the messages which the poets try to convey to us by imagining images through words.