IMAGERY

Definition : in poetry, imagery is what brings words to life. Imagery draws the readers into experiencing the poems and sense it. Despite that image means the same thing as picture but imagery needn't be only visual. Imagery evokes the five senses of the readers so they can respond to what the poet wrote and feel about the poem.


Example :
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells


Significance : Imagery is important to a poem because it's all about the experience, feelings of the poem and the senses that helps the readers to respond to what the poet wrote about the poem.