Blog 6

Imagery is the key element in poetry that paints the image in the mind of the reader.  The senses that imagery provides for the reader engages to actually feel, smell, touch, and hear in the poems own world.   For example in the poem introduction to Poetry, " I say drop a mouse into a poem, and watch him prob his way out". The author Billy Collins really illustrates the imagery of the mouse really trying to wiggle his way out.  The imagery helps the reader completely visualize escape from where the mouse it at.  Also another example of imagery in the "OUT,OUT" by Robert Frost he does a great job painting the image of the 5 mountain ranges one behind another. "Five mountain ranges one behind the other.". Another element in poetry is figurative language, in the poem to an Athlete Dying Young, is a filled with metaphors to describe a deeper meaning. For example eyes the shady nigh has shut, Cannot see the record cut" this line explains that the fact that he has died young is good in the sense the "runner" does not need to see his record broken.