More often, sensory images use figurative languages in a poem or other articles to express what is happening in the heart and soul. Further, images of sensors are used to make the audience or reader remember the things they smelled, saw, heard, or touched.
Question One
Below are examples of images of sense in different poems:
“ The piercing chill I feel”
Tactile: The title itself is a tactile “The piercing chill I feel” and “…cold and motionless, the widower feels a shock as if he had touched his own wife’s corpse.”
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Visual: “The piercing chill I feel: my dead wife’s comb, in our bedroom, under my heel…”
"The Winter Evening Settles Down”
Tactile: “With all its muddy feet that press too early coffee-stands”
Olfactory Imagery: “With a smell of steaks in passageways” and “Of faint stale smells of beer.”
Visual: “One thinks of all the hands…That are raising dingy shades…In a thousand furnished rooms.”
Aural: “A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps” and “And you heard the sparrows in the gutters.”
"In the old stone pool"
Tactile: “In the old stone pool.”
Visual: “A frog jump, patiently waiting to strike and… suddenly, it strokes!” and “A snake basks, waiting…”
Aural: “Splishhhh” and “Hissss.”
Visual imagery is more appealing compared to all other images of senses. This basic reason is that it pertains graphics or creation of pictures through word description.
Question Two
"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop
This poet seems to change every scene to vivid imagery in the reader’s mind. She converts the visual images into words of a poetic language. The first imagery is the life that is described to be “battered,” “homely,” and “venerable.” This is support by the use of simile in creating familiar pictures to the mind of the reader about the condition of the fish. She uses words such as "was like wallpaper," "like ancient wallpaper," to compare the fish to familiar household objects. The imagery in this poem have been used to immense the reader’s mind and thus becoming part of the fish as it concludes. The reader can conclude that their lip has grown around the hooks. Bishop releases the fish when she notices his five hooked jaw. She realizes his situation of capture and imprisonment and releases him as he’d gotten away five times before.
