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An image is a representation of anything that we can see, smell, touch, taste, or hear. Painters who paint realistic paintings are able to decide on what they want the viewer to see. Poets, however, do not draw lines or use colors. Everything they do is confined to words. They must this using verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. When reading poetry, the reader imagines what is taking place in the poem.
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Imagery names something we can see, smell, touch, taste, or hear.
We can make distinctions between poets simply by the type of imagery
they use. Imagery ties in with the poet's feeling about what she
or he is writing about. When a person reads a poem with well-written
imagery, the reader should be able to feel what the poet felt
and see what the poet saw. The following poem uses imagery and was written by one of my
classmates. The Lost and the Lonely |
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Where only a boy was wondering around.
His breath was halted; he froze on the spot,
He had heard something, or so he had thought.
His legs like fire, began to run
To his house, where there was no one.
The door slowly creaked open as he walked in,
Someone was there, he sensed it within.
He picked up a candle and headed upstairs,
Something was wrong, he could feel someone's stares.
The clouds began to rumble, and lightening struck the ground,
It made the boy jump, he quickly turned around.
He looked to his left, he looked to his right,
No one was there, at least not in sight.
He went to his room, and curled up in his bed,
The thing was coming closer, he could see its head.
Light came flashing through the room, when he suddenly saw,
That the thing coming nearer, had nothing more than a little paw.
It was just a little kitten, that had started him that night,
Or was it something bigger, that gave him such a fright.
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