Poetic devices like imagery and emotions are important elements of poetry. Imagery draws pictures or scenes for the reader using descriptions that can include single images or more complex images combined with emotions. Some poems use imagery to draw bleak pictures, while others draw scenes that evoke specific emotions through descriptions of weather, surroundings, and body language.

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. From Memory by 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;