A Litany Poem

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

The use of imagery allows the reader to picture the long-lasting emotions gripping the narrator. Being a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience (myLearning), imagery permits the reader to visualize what the narrator is experiencing. One example of imagery is used in line 5 “I'm stone. I'm flesh.” The narrator is using metaphoric and literal imagery describing his body. The reader can visualize the attempt to harden the body against the onslaught of emotion, and the reflection of the vulnerable flesh body in the granite wall. Another example of imagery can be found in lines 22 through 24 “Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's / wings cutting across my stare. / The sky. A plane in the sky." Here the realistic memories of war involuntarily flash through the narrator’s mind.

"He had…split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above his yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut across his temple and plowed through a thick canopy of kinky hair…" Imagery is very effectively used by Knight in order to illustrate Hard Rock and incidents in the poem. Phrases such as "bored a hole in his head," "handcuffed and chained," "the jewel of a myth," and "barked in his face," paint vivid images in the readers mind. Knight's use of imagery keeps the reader interested in the poem while slowly drawing the reader into the story (emotionally). This element ultimately proves to be very useful to convey the motif of the poem.

He uses imagery to exaggerate what the sentence is portraying such as, “The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean closed over his head” (63). This figuratively describes the blood-curdling cry with warm waters of the Caribbean. Another exceptionally positioned imagery quote is, “The jungle weeds were crushed down and the moss was lacerated; one patch of weeds were stained crimson” (64). This descriptively describes the spot where he was looking at where the moss was torn to pieces and there is blood on the surrounding places which usually means something has died there. Connell used imagery to descriptively and figuratively to describe certain

Mourning and mortality is a constant concern that transcends time. Slessor’s poetic treatment of these ideas continue to engage readers as it evokes a sense of awareness. This is evident in Kenneth Slessor 's poem Five Bells as the persona 's grief for his deceased friend, Joe Lynch causes him to realise the significance of time and the strength of spiritual attachments. This further leads him to question the purpose of human life.

It evades emotionalizing and in its place, creates some of the best memories that he has of his father. The poem begins with the typical storytelling style that characterizes the poetry of Larry Levis. The free verse begins with a memory that remains vivid in the poet's

He uses the words “tears” and “distress” to detail the way a hopeless person looks. Furthermore he also describes the procession as “Heavy” giving the readers a grasp on the burden of this procession. Similarly in “A Walk on the Long Stone Serpent” the author uses imagery when he states “I closed my eyes and tried to visualize those men and women who had carried the very stones I was now seeing in the wall. I pictured thousands of

for instance, in the text, when he stated words like ``excruciating pain``, instead of saying, it hurt a lot. or ``March rain drilling his jacket and drilling his body and washing away the blood that poured from his open wound.`` instead of saying, it started to rain harder.Lastly,he hooked the reader in, by creating pictures using all of this. for example, the higher level words add feeling to the text. in the text, for instance, when the author says ``excruciating pain,`` I could almost feel the pain Andy was going through. the author adds picture to that by describing the knife, when it cut Andy.(The knife entered just below his rib cage and had been drawn across his body violently, tearing a wide gap in his flesh.) but then we also know, that none of this wouldn't have happened if Andy had been

For example, Owen conveys “ He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” (line 16). This constructs an extremely horrific image in the reader’s mind that helps the reader better understand the horribleness of war by displaying a tragic event Owen experinced. Another representation of this is when the poet states “Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (lines 22 & 23). This additionally recreates the horrors Owen went through as a soldier in their mind. Furthermore, the horrific imagery present in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen assists the poet in educating the readers that war should not be

“Poets are the record keepers and moral consciences of their times.” In response to this view, explore connections between the ways in which Heaney and Sheers write about memories. As poets are known to be record keepers memories are a key theme that poets often write about due to it being a theme with such a wide range. Heaney and Sheers have both written poems about memories. The two poems that i have chosen to focus on for this essay are ‘Mametz Wood’ by Owen Sheers and ‘The Strand at Lough Beg’ by Seamus Heaney.

Owen uses Imagery as another method to convey the brutality of war and also as a means of contrast to show his life before and after. In the third stanza he creates a picture of blood being poured away; “poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry” and he uses metaphorical language to emphasis the point that he nearly bled to death as you cannot literally pour the blood out of your veins.

The most important means of developing the effectiveness of the poem is the graphic imagery. The images in this poem are so graphic that it could make the reader feel sick. The images in this poem can draw graphic pictures in the readers mind, such as in these lines: ?If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood/ Come gargling from the

First of all, imagery is used quite often in this essay, which gives the reader more of a visual when reading. One of the many examples would be “She found the spoon in a clump of coffee grounds mixed with scrambled egg remains and

Oscar Wilde famously stated “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” What happens to that diary, however, when our memories are forgotten. Is our diary forgotten too? The poem, “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins, describes in vivid detail the nature of forgetting experiences and knowledge acquired over a lifetime. It is clear that the speaker is suffering from some form of memory loss, and throughout the poem, he portrays the emotions and experiences that go hand in hand with forgetting these memories, experiences, and his personal diary. The speaker uses excessive hyperbole, somber imagery, and a nostalgic, reflective tone to convey the pain associated with memory loss. These devices illuminate how memory loss slowly breaks down and tears apart someone’s personal experiences and emotions, leaving them in a painful, desolate solitude.

To elaborate, the reader can not truly hear what is taking place in the poem, but does get a sense of being able to hear what they are reading. For instance when the speaker says “While his gills were breathing in” (22), the reader can almost hear the fish breathing. The speaker again stimulates the auditory senses when she says “and a fine black thread, / still crimped from the strain and snap” (58-59). Again the reader can virtually hear the sound of the line snapping. The next aspect of imagery that needs to be examined is the sensory imagery. An excellent example of sensory imagery is found when reading the lines “It was more like the tipping, / of an object toward light” (43-44). These lines can give an almost unbalanced feeling to the reader as they conceptualize these words. Imagery is not the only important element used in this poem. As stated earlier, irony is an important component involved in “The Fish”.