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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
Act 1, scene 2
Explanation and Analysis—The Storm:
Shakespeare uses visual, auditory, and tactile imagery to convey the overwhelming power of the tempest. In Act 1, Scene 2, Prospero describes how Antonio and Alonso abandoned him to the storming seas in a rickety boat:
In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea, where they prepared
A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
Instinctively had quit it. There they hoist us
To cry to th' sea that roared to us, to sigh
To th' winds, whose pity, sighing back again,
Did us but loving wrong.
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Explanation and Analysis—The Sea :
The Tempest contains many images of the sea that evoke the senses of sight, sound, and touch. In Act 1, Scene 2, Miranda begs Prospero to stop the storm:
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Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out.
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