Imagery

IMAGERY

Definition: The sights, smells, tastes, sounds, feelings from your imagination that you think of when reading a poem.
Example:
In jungles tumescent, through villages
of straw, by the Mekong where catfish
sleep in mud-heaven, we tramped,
disarming mines and flushing tunnels,
killing women and children
for potential collaboration,
smoking Thai-stick until stuporous—
still, the sound of Charlie
played on every frond.

~At the Vietnam War Memorial by Craig Erick Chaffin~

(See: Jungles, villages, Mekong, catfish, disarming mines, tunnels...
Smell: River, Smoking, mud...
Hear: Screaming, guns...
Taste: danger?
Feel: The water, guns, the trees,...)

Significance:
Imagery can help reader visualize what is going on in the poem, what the author been through. They can also understand what is going on better.