1. Poetic Devices:imagery and emotions The Open Poetry Unit OpenEducation.ws

2. Imagery

Poetry is often focused on drawing images for the reader.

3. The images can be single pictures, described like a photograph or they can be more complex, and include emotions as part of the scene or image. 4. Imagery

Some poems draw pictures.

5. What does this image from Dreams by Langston Hughes look like? What makes it seem so bleak?

Life is a barren field

6. Frozen with snow. 7. Emotions

What does this scene look and feel like?

8. FromMemoryby Margret Walker

I can remember wind-swept streets of cities

9. on cold and blustery nights, on rainy days; 10. heads under shabby felts and parasols 11. and shoulders hunched against a sharp concern;