Imagery is a poetic language that stimulates imagination and sets the tone of a poem. It appeals to the 5 senses. It helps the reader imagine exactly what is being described.
Descriptors: (called appositives) They are phrases that add more detailed description to a sentence or a phrase
In the ´The Ode to Atumn¨ You can see how the Autumn is described as: ¨Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ¨ (1st Stanza, 1st Line)
Realistic Imagery: They are literal images that appeal to one or more of the senses, words that enable us imaginatively to see, hear, taste, smell, touch or feel what is being referred to. Realistic imagery is the use of descriptors which the people in the natural world are most familiarized with.
Nonrealistic imagery: It may create images that do not necessarily reflect the world as we see it , or also lead us to see the world in new ways. Sometimes we tend to come up the term Unrealistic as distorted reality. However, you can never be sure that the way you see the world is the way the world really is.
The line:
¨Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?¨¨ (3rd Stanza, 1st Line)
Is it that spring has music?
Look at the following clips and feel the notes of the song representing interpretation to the author what the notes of spring is to their consideration.
Watch the following clip from the film ¨Amelie ´ find the images
Here is the transcript
Everything’s perfect: the softness of the light, that little scent in the air, the peaceful sounds of the city. Life seems so simple and crystal-clear that she’s swept by this desire to help all mankind.
-I’ll help you. We go down and there we go! There’s the widow of the drummer of the brass band. Hey, the horse’s lost one ear! The husband of the florist is laughing. There are lollipops in the shop window! Can you smell his scent? This man is offering melon to his clients to taste. There, they make wonderful ice-cream! We’re passing in front of the butcher’s. Ham 79 francs. Spareribs, Here we’re at the cheese merchants. At the butcher’s, a baby’s looking at a dog, that’s looking at the chicken.
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