Allusions are a means of reinforcing the emotion or the ideas of one’s own work with the emotion or ideas of another work or occasion. Because they
may compact so much meaning in so small a space, they are extremely useful to the poet.
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C. Imagery
Imagery may be defined as the representation through language of sense experience. Poetry appeals directly to our senses, of course, through its music and
rhythms, which we actually hear when it is read load. But, indirectly it appeals to our senses through imagery; the representation to the imagination of sense
experience. The word image perhaps most often suggests a mental picture, something seen in the mind’s eye – and visual imagery is the kind of imagery
occurs most frequently in poetry. But an image may also represent a sound auditory imagery;
a smell olfactory imagery; a taste gustatory imagery; touch, such as hardness, softness, wetness, or heat and cold tactile imagery; an
internal sensation, such a hunger, thirsty, fatigue, or nausea organic imagery; or movement or tension in the muscles or joints kinesthetic imagery.
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The imageries could be grasped from the classification below:
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Ibid. p. 120 et seqq.
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Ibid. p. 49.
1. 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,
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through the poem of William Wordsworth Daffodils below seen the obvious described
about visual
imagery. Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: The thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance Inside of our imagination appears the description or portrait about daffodil
flower that is growing stretched and never ending along the margin of a bay and we can see the thousands of daffodil, what beautiful they are It is tossing their
heads in sprightly dance. 2.
Auditory Imagery
Auditory imagery represents a sound. In the poem bellow: Hear the sledges with the bells - silver bells
What a world of merriment their melody foretells How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night While the stars that over sprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time In a sort of runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells, From the jingling and tinkling of the bells.
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Siswantoro, op. cit. p. 52.
