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Definition of Imagery
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking" contain imagery that engages... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines... read full definition
Part 1
Explanation and Analysis—Yellow Windows:
In the story’s first paragraph, Fitzgerald uses visual imagery to depict the setting outside the posh country club that Bernice and her “friends” are partying in:
AFTER DARK on Saturday night one could stand on the first tee of the golf-course and see the country-club windows as a yellow expanse over a very black and wavy ocean. The waves of this ocean, so to speak, were the heads of many curious caddies, a few of the more ingenious chauffeurs, the golf professional’s deaf sister—[...]
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Part 5
Explanation and Analysis—Long Voluptuous Pull:
While Bernice is sitting in the barber’s chair getting her hair cut into a bob, she’s so emotionally overwhelmed that the world seems distant and unreal to her. Fitzgerald uses tactile imagery to show how Bernice's intense emotions block everything but her sense of touch out:
Unlock with LitCharts A+But Bernice saw nothing, heard nothing. Her only living sense told her that this man in the white coat had removed one tortoise-shell comb and then another; that his fingers were fumbling clumsily with unfamiliar hairpins; that this hair, this wonderful hair of hers, was going—she would never again feel its long voluptuous pull as it hung in a dark-brown glory down her back.
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