To A Sad Daughter

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

As this poem begins the speaker is wandering around a bookstore and comes upon a book, which captivates her attention, which she uses imagery to describe, “Your book surprised me on the bookstore shelf-swans gliding on a blue black lake.” As readers continue the poem, she describes the book with more imagery, putting a clear picture of the book, making readers imagine what it is the book looks like, “the swans posed on a placid lake. “Blurred

The use of imagery allows the reader to picture the long-lasting emotions gripping the narrator. Being a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience (myLearning), imagery permits the reader to visualize what the narrator is experiencing. One example of imagery is used in line 5 “I'm stone. I'm flesh.” The narrator is using metaphoric and literal imagery describing his body. The reader can visualize the attempt to harden the body against the onslaught of emotion, and the reflection of the vulnerable flesh body in the granite wall. Another example of imagery can be found in lines 22 through 24 “Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's / wings cutting across my stare. / The sky. A plane in the sky." Here the realistic memories of war involuntarily flash through the narrator’s mind.

Imagery is a rhetorical strategy that is prevalently used in O’brien’s novel to create a close bond between reader and O’brien. The imagery

In the third stanza, a lot of imagery is used. The significant ones are present in the seventh and eleventh lines. In the first line, the poet writes, "A

In Julia Alvarez’s poem, On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries, she is able to use imagery, specific selection of detail and tone in order to convey the speaker’s discovery. Throughout this poem, the speaker is meerely in a bookstore and comes upon a book, “Your book surprised me on the bookstore shelf- swans gliding on a blue black lake.” There is a clear use of imagery when the speaker describes what the book looks like, “the swans posed on a placid lake.. Blurred underwater sinking to the bottom,” you can clearly imagine what it is that the speaker tells readers about what they are reading, they say “words rose, breaking the surface, shattering an old silence.”

In stanza six, we see the end of visiting hour, and the persona’s loss of control as he is overran with emotion. The phrase, “black figure in her white cave” creates an image of an intruder in her sanctuary. The black and white contrast suggests he is a shadow of his former self and also that he is trying to detach himself. The phrase, “clumsily rises” gives connotations of his state as he is physically affected by his feeling of loss. Furthermore, “swimming waves of a bell” is a metaphor which has connotations of water. This is used to illustrate that he is drowning in the realisation that she is dying. Finally, “fruitless fruits” is an oxymoron used to reinforce that there is no hope or going back, for her.

Imagery helps you “see” the poem better, and picture things in your mind. In the second stanza it says, “In the bottoms of our shoes, / they [poems] are sleeping. They are the shadows / drifting across our ceilings the moment / before we wake up. What we have to do / is live in a way that lets us find them.” You could almost picture shadows across ceilings, poems “hiding,” someone “looking for poems,” or even someone trying to make sense of a poem.

This poem is a rhyming pantoum poem, which is represented by the repeated words and the rhythm of the poem. Theirs is also no uses of a simile or metaphors on this poem, but this poem does contain a great deal of imagery. What is imagery? Imagery can be described as the visualizing the mental images, figures, or things of the text. Imagery in this poem is important, because it helps give the reader a visual of the theme and can also help to understand it a

The first example of imagery was on line 1 of stanza 1, ‘’ It’s a dark and cloudy morning’’. This example is creating a dark atmosphere. This impacted the poem because it set the setting for the rest of the poem. The author created a sad or dark mood by having a dark atmosphere.

Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than

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.

Some words or expressions can make an especially striking mental feeling. This is what imagery is. It is a vital component of all unmistakable written work and, particularly, of verse. The most widely recognized path by which a writer can make use of imagery is by using metaphors or personifications. Genuinely compelling imagery acts just about to engrave itself onto the reader’s psyche.

The poem then transitions to the post-marriage life of the couple in stanza two. In lines eight through ten, the speaker states that she is too shy around her husband. Not only does she not smile, but also she does not answer her husband when he calls her. This shows that the speaker's life took a great emotional transition, as she is overly shy and feels uncomfortable around him. However, around the middle of the second stanza, the speaker transitions into another stage of

The speaker furthermore conveys the idea that nature is a grandeur that should be recognized by including the element of imagery. The poet utilizes imagery as a technique to appeal to reader’s sense of sight . It is “the darkest evening of the year” (line 8) and a traveller and his horse stop “between the woods and frozen lake” (line 7). By writing with details such as these, readers are capable of effortlessly envisioning the peaceful scenery that lies before the speaker. The persona then draws on reader’s sense of sound. “The only other sound’s the sweep / Of easy wind and downy flake.” The illustration allows readers to not only see,