This is partly done with the visual images that are drawn, and in part with Croggon's images that mix the senses (this is called synaesthesia), such as the strawberries with their "klaxons of sweetness" or the gardens with "well-groomed scents", having the way the imagery is made correspond with what the imagery shows.įleur Adcock's poem, 'Leaving the Tate', uses imagery of picture-making to build up the overlap between art and sight at the centre of the poem. Without it being said explicitly, the imagery makes it clear that the supermarket is big, boxy, and tidy, unlike the cosy Elwood's.
5 types of imagery in poetry archive#
Of course, not every poem is an Imagist poem, but making images is something that nearly every poem in the Archive does.Īn interesting contrast in imagery can be found by comparing Alison Croggon's 'The Elwood Organic Fruit and Vegetable Shop' with Allen Ginsberg's 'A Supermarket in California' although both poets seem to like the shops they write about, Ginsberg's shop is full of hard, bright things, corralled into aisles, featuring neon, tins and freezers, while the organic shop is full of images of soft, natural things rubbing against one another in sunlight. research shows that there are four types of figurative language of visual imagery used in the five selected poems. One of the great pleasures of poetry is discovering a particularly powerful image the Imagists of the early 20th century felt it was the most important aspect, so were devoted to finding strong images and presenting them in the clearest language possible. Techniques, such as these, that can be used to create powerful images are called figurative language, and can also include onomatopoeia, metonymy and personification. Definition of Imagery Imagery is a literary device that uses figurative language to describe objects, actions, and ideas in a way that appeals to the physical senses and helps readers to picture the scene as if it were real. Examples of non-visual imagery can be found in Ken Smith's 'In Praise of Vodka', where he describes the drink as having "the taste of air, of wind on fields, / the wind through the long wet forest", and James Berry's 'Seashell', which puts the "ocean sighs" right in a listener's ear.Ī poet could simply state, say, "I see a tree", but it is possible to conjure up much more specific images using techniques such as simile ("a tree like a spiky rocket"), metaphor ("a green cloud riding a pole") or synechdoche ("bare, black branches") - each of these suggests a different kind of tree. Read on for more on its definition and 5 different types, as well as examples from literature. Despite "image" being a synonym for "picture", images need not be only visual any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) can respond to what a poet writes. Keywords: Langston Hughes’s Poetry, Imagery, and the Functions of Imagery.Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses. Another function of imagery which appears in the twenty poems of Langston Hughes is to create the movement in the poem, the readers’ imagination and to build the readers’ inner feeling, the smell and taste, and to feel the fictional world. The most dominant type of imagery that appears in the twenty poems was visual imagery because it functions to represent the things which the readers can directly imagine and see. Another functions 3 (5,66 %) was auditory imagery 2 (3,77%) was olfactory imagery 1(1,89%) was gustatory imagery 2 (3,77 %) was tactile imagery 7 (13,21 %) was organic imagery 8 (15,09 %) was kinesthetic imagery. The most dominant types 30 (56,60%) was Visual Imagery. The results of the research showed that there were sixty-two types of imagery foundin the five poetry of Emily Dickinson, for instance fifty-one visual. 7 What do you need to know about imagery in poetry 8 How is imagery used in the poem well watered and smoking soil 9 How is gustatory imagery used in a poem 10 How is Tactile imagery used in a poem Does a poem have to use imagery Imagery is one of the literary devices that engage the human senses sight, hearing, taste, and touch.
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The result of the study shows that there were 53 instances of imagery in 20 poems of Langston Hughes. The researcher used the theory of Imagery of Arp & Perrine (1991) in analyzing the use of imagery in the poetry. The researcher used qualitative method with descriptive approach in this study. 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) A writer can use single or multiple imageries in his writings.
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Abstract: The objectives of conducting this research were to find out the types of imagery and describe the functions of imagery found in Langston Hughes’s poetry.