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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
Key Examples in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Act 2
Explanation and Analysis—Autumnal Leaves:
Despite its general avoidance of poetic descriptions, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead provides a moment of vivid visual imagery as its protagonists inch ever closer to their fate. While Hamlet meets with Fortinbras’s nephew in Act 2, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz discuss the changing seasons among themselves. The conversation prompts Guildenstern to a reflection on the coming of fall:
Guil: Autumnal—nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day…Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it…Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edges of the senses…deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth—reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light.
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