poetic devices: imagery and emotions
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- 1. Poetic Devices:imagery and emotions The Open Poetry Unit OpenEducation.ws
2. Imagery
- Poetry is often focused on drawing images for the reader.
3. 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. 4. Imagery
- Some poems draw pictures.
5. What does this image from Dreams by Langston Hughes look like? What makes it seem so bleak?
- Life is a barren field
6. Frozen with snow. 7. Emotions
- What does this scene look and feel like?
8. FromMemoryby Margret Walker
- I can remember wind-swept streets of cities
9. on cold and blustery nights, on rainy days; 10. heads under shabby felts and parasols 11. and shoulders hunched against a sharp concern;