Imagery in poetry is what the words of the poem make the reader 'see' in their imagination. it is the colors, sounds, and sometimes feelings evoked by the poem.

Ex: The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps

T.S. Eliot

Imagery is important because

poetry is all about inspiring feelings and conveying a message. Imagery is a great way to get readers to visually manifest your ideas in their head, which gets them much more involved in the reading of your poem.

A Simile is a figure of speech that says that one thing is like another different thing.

Ex: His skin was as cold as ice.

Similes are important because  they show a comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Similes are a way to describe something.

A Metaphor is the comparison between two objects.



Ex: Death is a day.

Metaphors are important in poetry because they are a form
of figuritive language and gives you a chance to think about
the needing of a poem or story.


An Extended Metaphor is a comparison of multiple objects.



Ex:

He is the pointing gun, we are the bullets of his desire.

All the world's a stage and men and women merely players.

Let me count my loves of thee, my rose garden, my heart,

my fixed mark, my beginning and my end.

Extended metaphors are important in poetry, because they

are like metaphors they are a form

of figuritive language and gives you a chance to think about
the needing of a poem or story.

The Tone is the strength of the story or the quality of the reading.
 

Ex: being happy, sad, or angry, etc while reading.

Tone is important in a poem because it gives you a
certain vibe that goes with the poem or story.

Repetition is a reapeating word in a poem.


Ex:

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

From Mother Goose

Repetition is mportant in poety, because it gives

more emphasis for the person who is reading it or speaking aloud.

An Interpretation is a way of how a person thinks about a story or a poem

Ex: The Girl thought the picture was about the kid fixing the puzzle.

The Interpretation is important because if there was no Interpretation then the person wouldn't think about the story or poem.

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