Poets use imagery to draw readers into a sensory experience. From the poem, pick out words and phrass that appeal to our sense of sight and sound.
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Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking" contain imagery that engages the senses of touch, movement, and hearing: "I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend. / And I keep hearing from the cellar bin / The rumbling sound / Of load on load of apples coming in."
Types of Imagery
There are five main types of imagery, each related to one of the human senses:
Visual imagery (sight)
Auditory imagery (hearing)
Olfactory imagery (smell)
Gustatory imagery (taste)
Tactile imagery (touch)
Example of Imagery in "Birches"
In the early lines of his poem "Birches," Robert Frost describes the birches that give his poem it's title.
The language he uses in the description involves imagery of sight, movement, and sound.
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay
As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel