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Poetic Devices: imagery and emotions The Open Poetry Unit OpenEducation.ws

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Imagery <ul><li>Poetry is often focused on drawing images for the reader.

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The images can be single pictures, described like a photograph or they can be more complex, and include emotions as part of the scene or image. </li></ul>

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Imagery <ul><li>Some poems draw pictures.

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What does this image from Dreams by Langston Hughes look like? What makes it seem so bleak? </li><ul><li>Life is a barren field

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Frozen with snow. </li></ul></ul>

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Emotions <ul><li>What does this scene look and feel like?

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From Memory by Margret Walker </li><ul><li>I can remember wind-swept streets of cities

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on cold and blustery nights, on rainy days;

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heads under shabby felts and parasols

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and shoulders hunched against a sharp concern; </li></ul></ul>