can someone explain to me in a simple way wut imagery in poetry is. an example would also be awesome!?

Question

i just dont get it and like 5 people have tried to explain it to me.

Answer 1

She walks in beauty, like the night. Byron

It is using the poem to create an image in the eyes of the reader. Byron is saying that the woman is beautiful - like the night.

Answer 2

A poet uses imagery to create a "picture" in the reader's imagination; the words he uses make you "see" what he is talking about...thats a "literal" or real image. The words directly describe something, someone, some feeling, some vision, or some experience. Literal imagery places you right there in the scene; you feel as if you have entered the world the poem has created. Like this..."Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough."
"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May."
The words describe EXACTLY what it is.......

A figurative image is a mental impression created by indirect description, or what are known as "figures of speech." Figurative images can be understood as those that describe something by comparing it to something else. "The clouds looked like cotton candy in the setting sun." You KNOW that clouds aren't cotton candy, but in your mind you see fluffy pink clouds during the sunset.

Answer 3

Imagery poems try to get the reader to visualize the author's message. In this poem, Dance Child, I am trying to get you to visualize an elegant dancer.

Toes tap
Satin whispers
As the poetry of the body
Music of the arms
Rhythm of the feet
Flows to follow
The jarring notes
Sweet melodies
Keeping time
In the heart
Of a dance child

Answer 4

I'm going to try to explain it the way it was explained to me. Hope it helps.
Imagery in poetry is what makes you want to close your eyes and picture the description.
Example
The flower burst forth into the moonlight and brought a bright loving color to the dark of night.
Now, close your eyes and picture it happening. That's imagery in poetry.

Answer 5

Imagery is any attempt to get you to visualize something. This can be as simple as a description of a house, or as complicated as comparing someone's appearance to that of a house. It all depends on how many pictures the poet wants you to imagine.

Answer 6

It is using words to make a picture in the reader's mind. Simply, if you imagine something in your head when you read it, it is imagery. For example:
"The sun was shining brightly, and the gentle summer breeze made the grass bend in rhythm".
Do you imagine a sunny sky with tall grass blowing around? That is imagery.

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

I think you're trying to hard, for me the easiest example of imagery would be:
Rain rolling down the window pane,
like tears on her cheek.

The wheat field flows in the fickle wind,
like the ocean tide rolls in and out.

Answer 8

One of the most prominent features of poetry is the usage of FIGURES OF SPEECH, without it poetry will be flat; tasteless.

Figures of speech are a way of painting an image for our mental eye to read. Humans tend to understand when they are able to visualize what they read. Abstractism is more difficult for the eye and the mind to understand. Visualization leans more towards the concrete side. Concrete is what we can see, touch and smell, etc.

Figures of speech are represented in similes, metaphors and personifications:

1. SIMILE is a way of describing a subject by showing the similarity between it and another subject. Example: 1) He is as brave as a lion. 2) My love is like a red rose. So imagine how a red rose looks like; it is beautiful, may be unfolding, red in color, may be covered with dew, etc. So by using a simile, you have already borrowed all those qualities of a concrete subject, the rose, which you can see, smell, touch, etc. to use for describing your love. In other word, this kind of technique makes a direct comparison between tow unlike subjects. Similes always use the words LIKE or AS.

2. METAPHOR is a technique that makes a direct comparison because of not using LIKE or AS. Added to that, the difference between SIMILE and METAPHOR is METAPHOR is more Emphatic. Example: 1) my love is a red rose. 2) The Louvre museum is Mecca for students of art. In fact LOVE and LOUVRE are two unlike subjects, but when you express yourself without using LIKE or AS you are emphasizing what you want to say as if it is actually a fact, not only stating a resemblance; students of art, visiting the Louvre, come in such big number like numbers of Muslims who go to Mecca for pilgrimage. Thus you have achieved: 1) how numerous the students are. 2. You have shown how important the Louvre is to the students as Mecca is to Muslims 3) you have also shown how holy the Louver is to the students of art.

3. Personification is another type of comparison; it gives human characteristic to a non-human subject. Example: 1) Whispering trees. Well, trees do not whisper. How could it be when a tree does not have a mouth?, but visualize the wind gently blowing through the leaves of the trees, the leaves rustling as if they are talking gently; whispering.

Generally and in a nutshell, Figures of speech are poetic comparison tools, poets use to help you visualize what you read, more understand and also throw more emphatic shadows; painting, to achieve the poet's purpose for using such figures of speech.

Answer 9

i could could desire to trust Storms.. Imagining the sound of rain, and the thunder basically provides to the charm (Rider on the hurricane- The doorways) i admire the darker, greater deeper emotional songs, so storms is basically for sure something that fascinates me to no end! good question!