Imagery-poetry2


 * Imagery **
 * Imagery ** is d escriptive language and or figurative language (such as similes and metaphors) that evokes “mental pictures” in a readers head; it also involves other senses which enhances the reader’s experience when reading to literary works.


 * Gustatory imagery ** is imagery that allows the reader to experience a particular taste through vivid descriptions. (Gustatory imagery is very closely related to olfactory imagery (as taste and smell are very closely related senses)

there is little mention of gustatory imagery in the poetry we have studied but here is an exmple from another poem called //Blueberries// by Robert frost:
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"Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb, Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum In the cavernous pail of the first one to come! "

The bluberries are described to be extremely juicy creating vivid gustatory imagery. Gustatory imagery is triggered by mouth-watering descriptions such as "bluberries as big as the end of your thumb" and "real sky-blue". The reader is invited by these descriptions and immediatley connects with the speaker of the poem. (They may feel that the words are almost good enough to eat!) Tactile imagery ** is imagery that evokes a sense of touch; this may be the description of a particular surface or temperature. "One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday did my three-quarters-empty train pull out, All windows down, all cushions hot, all sense Of hurry gone..." ---//The Whitsun Weddings// by Philip Larkin
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 * EX:**

In //The Whitsun Weddings// by Philip Larkin, the reader feels the heat of the carriage the the speaker feels through tactile imagery. The heat of the sun is not only illustrated through the mention of the time of day ("one-twenty") but also by the stuffiness and lack of ventilation in the train due to the fact that "all [the] windows were down". The poet also exaggerates the heat in the train by stating in short simply phrases that "all" things in the train were very "hot".

“//That was a pretty one.// I head you call From the unsatisfactory room where I Played record after record idly, Wasting my time at home that you Looked so much forward to.” --Philip Larkin’s //Reference Back//
 * Auditory imagery ** is imagery that represents a sound, the reader may “hear” the described sound in their heads.
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Philip Larkin creates auditory imagery in the beginning of his poem to establish the mood of the poem. Though the notes of the repeating old record are not directly spelled out in the poem, the words of the poem create a repeating melody in the reader's head. The repetition of “record” emphasizes the monotony the speaker feels as the music plays over and over again. The mood created in this excerpt reflects the speaker's disatisfaction and feelings of idleness.