C. The kind of imagery
Imagery refers to words used to evoke a sensory experience, including sight,
sound, smell, touch, and taste. Consequently, although image seems to refer to something that can be seen, imagery is also the term used to describe anything in a
poem that appeals to the senses. In the analysis of the experiences of reading poem, imagery very closely associated with sensations of poem, then. Perrine divided
imagery into seven kinds, there are bellows: 1.
Visual imagery Images of sight Visual imagery is something seen in the mind’s eye. Visual imagery is kind of
imagery that occurs most frequently in poetry. They sense can be explained on words worth’s poem “draffodils”.
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on hogh o’er values and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd A host, of golden and daffodils:
Beside the lake, beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
This poem images z person is walking through a field in early summer, around an aqua blue lake. You discover a field of daffodils that is flowing in motion
like a grand “dance” full of elegance. This is full of sublime that can be seen in mind’s eye.
Visual imagery means visual sensations of words do not commonly occur by themselves. They have certain regular companions so closely tied to them as to be
only with difficulty disconnected. The chief of these are the auditory image- the sound of the words in the mind’s ear- and the image of articulation-the feel in the lips,
mouth, and throat, of what the words would be like to speak.
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2. Auditory imagery Images of hearing
It represents a sound in the text. This imagery appeared in Yeats’s poem for example “leda and the swam”
How those can terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where its lie?
In this stanza, the author gives sound effect such as the beat of the heart to explain the girl’s anxiety. The girl heart tapped very fast when the swan attacks her rapidly
and push her until she do anything. Her chest heaved in rhythm with his wildly beating heart.
Auditory images of words are among the most obvious of mental happenings. Any line of verse or prose slowly read, will, for most people, sound mutely in the
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imagination somewhat as it would if read aloud.
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And the principal confusion which prevents a clear understanding of the point at issue does, however, concern images
and may be dealt with here. It is of great importance in connection with the topic of the poem.
3. Organic Imagery images of motion
In is an internal sensation, such as hunger, thirst, fatigue, or nursea. For example; in “lord Randal” ballad.
“O where have ye been, lord randal, my son? O where have ye been, my handsome young man?”
“I here been to wild wood; mother, make my bed soon, For I’m weary will hunting, and fain would lie down”.
In the stanza above, we feel that the prince is tired and he wants to faint lie down. When his mother asked him, the prince answer appears soft- hearted that we can look
in the text. This ballad `is talk about the prince that poisoned by his girl. 4.
Olfactory Imagery images of smell This sense represents the smell of perfume and the smell decomposed rubbish.
We can feel this imagery in frost’s poem “out out”. This poem told about a young boy who dies as a result of cutting his hand using a saw.
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove- length sticks of wood
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it
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In this stanza, the author uses some imagery. The first lines, he uses the auditory imagery, and the second lines he uses the visual imagery, and the last lines frost uses
the olfactory imagery. He told with the words: “sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it”. This line appears smell nuance.
5. Tactile Imagery images of touch
Tactile imagery it represents external touch such as hot, cold or when we touch something hard such as we touch wood, iron, stone etc. we can find this imagery
when we read Shakespeare’s sonnet. How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezing have I felt, what dark days seen
What old December’s bareness everywhere In this sonnet, our mind also involved in this sense that the speaker who is far
away with his her love like at the winter. He feels alone and his her days are seen. 6.
Gustatory Imagery images of taste Gustatory imagery it represents tastes like bitter or sour. We can find this imagery
just in the title “after apple-picking” poem by Robert frost. When we read this title only, we can taste the apple although it is not specifically mentioned.
7. Kinesthetic Imagery images of heat and cold
This imagery represents movement such as the movement of muscle or joints. Frost example in frost’s poem “after apple-picking”.
“I felt the leader sway as the boughs bend”. Line 23 In this line, the author uses “sway as the boughs bend”. In this word, exactly, we
understood the meaning.
D. Explication