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Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebsįrom a twig’s having lashed across it open.Īlthough they are used less frequently, taste and smell can create even stronger emotional responses. Frost uses touch later in his poem to create a strong emotional response: The other three senses, smell, taste, and touch, can cause a strong emotional response. Sound plays a dual role in poetry, which includes the actual sounds created by the words and rhythm of a poem. In the haiku The Old Pond, Matsuo Bashō combines a visual, a frog, with onomatopoeia to create a pleasant surprise. “The rooster crowed, the pots and pans clattered in the kitchen, and the kids were murmuring quietly when John woke.” In this example, sound imagery helps create a whole world. A poet will incorporate other senses to make the poem “come alive.” Sound is the second most used sense because of its dual use.įirst, a poet can describe a sound using auditory imagery, which is the use of sound in poetry. In the following lines, Frost invites the reader to also visualize frozen-over trees:Īlthough we rely on sight, we experience the world through all the senses. I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.īut swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay When I see birches bend to left and rightĪcross the lines of straighter darker trees, In Birches, Robert Frost starts the poem with a visual description: Poets and writers are often advised to “show not tell,” and this applies in an art form where every word counts. However, since sight is the sense that most of us rely on unless we are blind, we’ll focus on that separately. Interestingly, imagery is defined by most as all human senses, including sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. The sense of sight is one type of imagery in poetry.
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