Imagery

Definition: Making readers to picture the poem in their mind by looking at the images and senses that they already know.

Example: Excerpt from “Preludes” by T. S. Eliot

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.

Significance: Imagery help to make an author’s words more powerful with his/her own words.