In class, the chapter Imagery was assigned. Imagery works and reveals itself through several aspects. Poems in its contents, books and its passages, music and its lyrics.
The poem Shopping in Tuckahoe by Jane Flaunders, depicts a parent waiting on their indecisive daughter during a shopping trip. To occupy their boredom, the parent finds and cleans a vacant lot through clearing up the weeds within the lot. Jane Flaunders images and metaphorically implies the parent's lot clearing through comparing the lot as a clearance sale and describes their self as the bargain hunter hunting down bargains, which in this case the clearance material are weeds. "A weedy lot its conducting its own January clearance" is the vivid imagery which appeals to a mental picture and brings out looking at the empty lot in a different perspective.
What if people spoke with explicit imagery? If simple words turned into beautiful complex descriptions. How would diction and language change? Would language become more sophisticated and refined? Would formal and informal language change from what it is today? A simple description of "life is hard" could be transformed and registered as "our journey and walk in humanity is a complex and simple battlefield".
Imagery is an art of manifesting simple words into a complex and sophisticated description. Imagery within books and music lyrics determine the appeal of being favored or not. Imagery is a beautiful aspect within speech and writing. Imagery adds originality in a conformed world. It is self-evident imagery is an art.
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