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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
Chapter 8: The Mermaids’ Lagoon
Explanation and Analysis—Neverland:
Barrie describes Neverland in terms of visual imagery in order to emphasize its natural features. For example, in Chapter 8, the narrator describes the Mermaids' Lagoon as follows:
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon. This is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment; if there could be two moments you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing.
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Chapter 12: The Children Are Carried Off
Explanation and Analysis—"Savage Warfare":
Peter Pan contains many examples of auditory imagery. The following passage from Chapter 12 shows how Barrie uses it to describe the way in which Tiger Lily's tribe wages war on the pirates:
Unlock with LitCharts A+[...] the savage scouts wriggle snake-like, among the grass without stirring a blade. The brushwood closes behind them, as silently as sand into which a mole has dived. Not a sound is to be heard, save when they give vent to a wonderful imitation of the lonely call of the coyote. The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even better than the coyotes, who are not very good at it. So the chill hours wear on [...] to the trained hand those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are but an intimation of how the night is marching.
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