(ii) 'Seems to touch the starry skies'. The poet has used word imagery. Describe
the idea and pick out other similar examples from the poem.The Sower
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Answer:
The Sower is a peom by Victor Marie Hugo
Explanation:
Imagery is the use of images to create a mental picture in the minds of a reader.
Imagery enables the reader to view the scene or the characters as if they were in front of him or her.
The poem The Sower employs imagery in the following lines :
- Seems to touch the starry skies.
- Twilight hastens on to rule
Explanation:
“The Sower”, is written by the French writer, Victor Hugo. He talks about the farmer who sows and waits for the reaping time.
The poet visualizes everything is a big way. He brings in the poetic literary device - imagery, to give a larger than life expression to the sower.
He has used the human senses in the imagery.
“To touch the starry skies”, “Twilight hastens to rule”, “Marches he along the plain”, are a few of the imagery that the writer has used in the poem to show the sowers dedication for work.