are presented specifically and makes the readers imagine how do such food and drinks taste.
5. Tactile Imagery
Tactile imagery represents a sense of touch in poetry, such as softness, hardness, wetness, cold, warm, hot, etc. The reader will find tactile imagery in
John Miltons poetry: A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed These lines invite the reader to feel the heat of hell that is described as
dungeon. Immediately they would feel stuffy and tight, then all walls around the dungeon feel like a greet furnace flamed.
6. Organic Imagery
Organic imagery deals with internal sensation, like hunger, thirst, fear, fatigue, tire, etc. The method to touch readers though their organic sense is
effective enough since one of vital human basic need relates with their organic mechanism and sense of safety.
Good example poetry to describe organic imagery can be seen as below: O where have ye been, Lord Randal, my son?
O where have ye been, my handsome young man? I here been to the wild wood; mother make my bed soon
For Im weary will hunting, and fain wald lie down. Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Randal, my son?
Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?
I dined will my true love; mother, make my bed soon, For Im weary will hunting, and fain wald lie down
The dialogue between Lord Randal and his mother above reveals an example of organic imagery where Lord Randal express his tired and wants to
lie down.
7. Kinesthetic Imagery
Kinesthetic imagery refers to imagery that shows movement. Williams described kinesthetic imagery in Flossie Williams Reply to This is Just to
Say: On the stove is the tea-pot
with enough tea leaves for you to make tea if you
prefer, just light the gas boil the water and put it in the tea
Another thing to remember about imagery is that the image needs to be particular and specific. Therefore, many poets avoid saying tree; they say pohon
durian or oak or banyan. They do not say bird, they say eagle. When you say eagle, you actually help to set the scene because eagle lives only in jungle or
zoos, unfortunately.
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With specific words, imagery might be more vivid and can describe experience precisely.
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Vince Gotera, Imagery, accessed on December 14 2008 http:www.uni.eduenglishcraft imagery.html
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