poetic imageryArticle Free Pass poetic imagery, the sensory and
figurative language used in poetry. The object or experience
that a poet is contemplating is usually perceived by that poet
in a relationship to some second object or event, person, or
thing. The poet may be thought to transfer from this second
object certain qualities, which are then perceived as attributes
of the original object, the poet’s intention being to decorate,
illuminate, emphasize, or renew by such transferences the
original character of that which is contemplated. The making or
finding of the image is an activity by which the poet invites
the reader to establish certain relationships, which in turn
involve value judgments. Image and symbol are, in one sense, the
outcome of the poet’s impulse to perceive unity in diversity or
to draw together a number of apparently unrelated experiences or
to communicate through their submerged or penumbral statements
meanings that are beyond the resources of direct language.
Images also differ in the