Poem With Toast

Imagery is a very desciptive form of figurative language to help the reader create a mental picture. The reason why imagery is used in “Invictus” is to provide the reader a way to undersand the poem and it provides them an oportunity to understand the author’s true feelings. He uses very creative words to create a picture of the pain and misery that he feels in the begining. In the end of the poem he lets the reader

Each of the poems relies heavily on imagery to convey their respective messages. Often throughout each of the poems, the imagery is that of people. However, each uses similar imagery to very different, yet effective ways to explore the same

The imagery used in this verse appeals to the sense sight. This helps the reader visualise what the writer is taking about. It also allows the reader to relate and connect more to the poem.

Imagery allows the reader to hear and connect to the story by using onomatopoeia and see what is happening in the poem.

Then, in the seventh stanza the narrator talks about when she finds the orange she has a “vision” of its “exotic land”(29-30). She goes on describe “the sun/ you swelled under/ the tree you grew from” (30-32). Using visual imagery, this setting sounds almost perfect. Kelly uses this imagery to suggest that because if the orange is perfect, it must have come from perfect beginnings. If the orange is her lover then, she is saying that because he is such a perfect person he must have had a wonder life leading up to this point. Another piece of imagery is when the narrator “[climbs]/ the hill, [looks] down/ on the town [they] live in/ with sunlight on [her] face” (41-44). This visual imagery is used to set a romantic scene in which the narrator is finally happy, and at peace that she has found the perfect orange. When the narrator looks down on her town it’s her looking back and reflecting on her life before she met her true love. The sun light on her face is the bright future she and her lover are going to have together. In the last stanza Kelly uses visual imagery to end the poem with the narrator “[walking] away/ [leaving] behind a trail/ of lamp-bright rind” (49-51). The visual imagery of her walking away leaving behind the rinds of the oranges is the way Kelly ends this poem. The narrator and her lover are walking away from their past lives and starting a new one

Imagery is shown in many parts of the poem but particularly when he is describing the barber.

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

Gascoigne first uses imagery to emphasize the pain felt by the man in the poem. When he writes, “To see me hold my [gloomy] head so low,” he enables the reader to clearly envision a man who is feeling the anguish of heartbreak. Furthermore, Gascoigne also uses imagery to show that the man in the poem still recognizes the physical beauty of his ex-lover. He writes, “...Mine eyes take no delight to range / About the gleams which on your face do grow.” The imagery presented in the latter line expresses the beauty of the woman through the man’s eyes.

Imagery is figurative language that describes senses to the reader so the reader can easily imagine the scenes and action in a literary work. A piece of writing could describe a specific smell, for example, to help the reader capture the moment in their mind. Imagery affects the tone of the poem because certain images could trigger the reader's emotion and attitude towards the writing. For example, in "President Lincoln's Declaration of Emancipation, January 1, 1863" by Frances E. W. Harper, it says in description "Soon the mists and turkey shadows shall be fringed with crimson light," which makes the reader feel warm and hopeful that things will get better.

Much of the song has no end line punctuations, and each sentence flows into the next. Along with that we get a sense of imagery from the lines of the poem. The narrator explains what the characters are seeing in way that depicts a certain image in the audience’s minds. I find that though the techniques used are adequate they are not completely effective. Rather, I think that it is the form it takes on that gives it the substance and power it needs.

This shows he knows how to write a love poem and he again he has all the right techniques for persuading a person. The second poem does also use imagery, however in a different way and for a different purpose. The narrator is describing the duchess to the emissary “That’s my last duchess painted on the wall”. This shows he is only describing the painting but as he is using the imagery he describes what she was like and how she made him angry. However as he describes her it makes her seem like she is just an object, which she was to him. This is his view of woman, that they belong to a man which was very common belief at that time. From the poetic devices used their attitudes are different because in the first he shows his sensitive side and tries to put a bit of romance into it. However the imagery in the second goes against him as he believes that she was his object and belonged to him.

Colour imagery is used in the beginning of the poem as the speaker describes his

Imagery is a strong element that helps portray a lot of internal feelings for the audience to fathom with, thus creating an experience that the audience can enjoy. Imagery is the language represented by sense experience and a literary device that helps create a mental picture for the reader to understand what the writer is trying to say to the audience (Johnson, Arp 779). The following is the poem by Langston Hughes: “The calm,/Cool face of the river/Asked me for a kiss.” (Hughes 1-3) When examining the poem, “Suicide’s Note”, it is full of imagery with only three lines present. The

Throughout the entire poem, imagery is one of the literary devices that Masters mainly uses. Imagery is defined as a, “Language that speaks to the senses. Most often, poetic images appeal to sight, but they can appeal to hearing, touch, smell, and taste, as well” (Handout). Imagery creates an image in your head of what the author is trying to explain, such as what Matlock loves, displayed in the quote:

These three lines are perfect examples of the imagery within the poem because they contain an image of a river with its small peeks and waves trembling and glistening in the afternoon sun. All the while it equates the natural beauty of the river to the beauty that the young man sees in the youthful maiden.