define visual imagery given an example from the poem punishment in kindergarten
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twinkle twinkle little star
The images used again are deceptively simple. In tune with the theme of the poem the images are evocative yet blurred. The teacher’s identity gets shrinked to a blue skirt but the words she ‘threw’ at her are still remembered as pots and pans. Though the image is a humorous one it shows the obnoxiousness of the assault. Words had hurt the young girl more than real hurts and today after so long they have taken a more materialistic from in the memory of the grown person. The image of the hedge and the sun is quite symptomatic of the introvertive nature of the poet and the subtle projection of her chronic loneliness unto a celestial object. The synaesthetic evocation of the image the smell of pain is remarkable for its zeugma.
It’s not only the above mentioned zeugma that adds the ting to the poem but also the simile, the metaphor, the metonymy and the personification in the following lines respectively – “throwing Words at me like pots and pans”, “That honey-coloured day of peace” “A blue-frocked woman”, “The years have Sped along, stopping briefly at beloved halts and moving sadly on.” Add the necessary and indispensible ring of poetry to the lines.