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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 3
Explanation and Analysis—Sound and Light in Paris:
Hemingway expertly employs both visual and auditory imagery to establish the scene of Paris at night in Chapter 3:
It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Neapolitan after Robert had gone, watching it get dark and the electric signs come on, and the red and green stop-and-go traffic-signal, and the crowd going by, and the horse-cabs clippety-clopping along at the edge of the solid taxi traffic [...]
Chapter 15
Explanation and Analysis—The Sounds of the Fiesta:
Hemingway wields imagery as a key literary device with which to construct his striking scenes of Jake’s expatriate life in France and Spain. Depicting the beginning of the festival in Pamplona in Chapter 15, Hemingway makes ample use of auditory imagery:
Unlock with LitCharts A+People were coming into the square from all sides, and down the street we heard the pipes and the fires and the drums coming. They were playing the riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding, and behind them came the men and boys dancing. When the fifers stopped they all crouched down in the street, and when the reed-pipes and the fifes shrilled, and the flat, dry, hollow drums tapped it out again, they all went up in the air dancing.
