imagery; an internal sensation, such as hunger, thirst, fatigue, or nausea organic imagery; or movement or tension in the muscles or joints kinesthetic imagery.
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Imagery usually calls a mental picture in a poem, where the readers can experience what the poem says. Essentially the true “meaning” of a poem lies in the
total effect that it has upon the readers. Very often that effect stimulates a response which is not just a reaction to what the poet has to say. But which draws on the
readers own intellectual and emotional experience. Imagery can be a central importance in creating this response within the readers.
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1. Classification of Imagery
The following poem exemplifies the form of some classification about imagery.
a. Visual Imagery
Visual Imagery evokes a picture of something that occurs most frequently in poetry, sometime seen in the mind eye which called by sight effect. The poem of
William Wordsworth Daffodils below seen the obvious described visual imagery. Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way The stretched in never ending line
Along the margin of a bay; The thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
b. Auditory Imagery
Auditory imagery represents a sound. In the poem bellow the auditory descibed auditory imagery.
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Laurence Perrince and Thomas R.A.R.P., op.cit. p. 49
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Steven Cross and Helen Cross, op.cit, p. 56
Hear the sledges with the bells-silver bells What a world of merriment their melody foretells
Ho they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy of night
While the stars that over sprinkle All the heavens, seem to winkle
With a crystalline delight...Etc... Keeping time, time, time
In a short of runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells,
From the bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells,
From the jingling and tinkling of the bells.
Poe calls up our imagination through the auditory effect. He invites us to hear sledges.
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With the bells, how they tinkle in the icy air of nigh...or we can hear the jingling and tinkling of the bells.
c. Olfactory Imagery
Olfactory imagery calls up the sense of smell to the reader. Here the example of the olfactory imagery thought the lines of Robert Frosts poem;
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scanted stuff when the breeze drew across it.
d. Gustatory Imagery
Gustatory imagery is the imagery represented a taste. The example of this imagery could be grasped through the quotation of Robert Frosts poem “the
blueberries as big as your thumb...With the flavor of soot...” blueberries.
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A vehicle with long narrow strips of wood, metal, etc. instead of wheels for traveling over the ice and snow. Larger types: of the sledge are pulled by horses or dogs and smaller ones are used for
going down hill for sport or pleasure. Jonathan Crowther, Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, International New Students’ Edition 1995, , p. 112.
e. Tactile imagery
