Imagery

1. Imagery What is it? How is it used to communicate a poet’s meaning?

2. Warmup • Define visual imagery. • Give an example of a visual image.

3. What is imagery? • The use of details to help a reader VISUALIZE a text and create a mental movie • Is this imagery? Why or why not? • They are in the sun and it’s hot. They are brown. There are some round things sticking up. • NOT IMAGERY! We all imagined different things. The description was unclear.

4. Visual Imagery • Describes sights in a way that we can see them too. • Example: The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

5. Visual Imagery • Can you find a second example with a partner? • Look for COLORS, SHAPES, and SIZES • Add it to your foldable and give credit to the author. • Write just the VISUAL images, not the whole poem.

6. Visual Imagery • Your assignment: • Find one poem with powerful VISUAL imagery and add it to your anthology. • Give to credit to author and title. • Then, write your own that includes at least 3 powerful VISUAL images. • Highlight the images and add the poem to your anthology. • Work on your figurative language list for the anthology.

7. Auditory Imagery • What does auditory sound like? • In other words: Auditory has to do with hearing. • Allows us to hear the sounds the character or speaker is hearing like we are there in the poem

8. Auditory Imagery Example by M.L.: Gulls cried as I swam. Waves pounded the shore, My heartbeat pounding inside my chest. Would I make it? Gasps of air as I swallowed, Small puffs of life being slowly squeezed Out. -

9. Auditory Imagery • Can you find a second example with a partner? • Look for SOUNDS you can hear clearly. • Add it to your foldable and give credit to the author. • Write just the AUDITORY images, not the whole poem.

10. Auditory Imagery • Your assignment: • Find one poem with powerful AUDITORY imagery and add it to your anthology. • Give to credit to author and title. • Then, write your own that includes at least 3 powerful AUDITORY images. • Highlight the images and add the poem to your anthology. • Work on your figurative language list for the anthology.

11. Warmup • Define auditory imagery. • Give an example you create. • FYI: Your rubric for the poetry anthology is on my website now. • Class Manager: Pass out imagery foldables and warmup sheets please. Then take attendance.

12. Tactile Imagery • If something is tacky, it’s sticky to the touch. • In other words: TACTILE means touch imagery • You can feel something like you were the one experiencing it.

13. Tactile Imagery • Example: Peering into the coffin, I felt the bony hands of my grandfather, As though they were wrapping ‘round My skinny neck as they had done Many times before, and My choking began anew. I had to back away.

14. Tactile Imagery • Can you find a second example with a partner? • Look for things you can FEEL and TOUCH. • Add it to your foldable and give credit to the author. • Write just the TACTILE images, not the whole poem.

15. Tactile Imagery • Your assignment: • Find one poem with powerful TACTILE imagery and add it to your anthology. • Give to credit to author and title. • Then, write your own that includes at least 3 powerful TACTILE images. • Highlight the images and add the poem to your anthology. • Work on your figurative language list for the anthology.

16. Warmup • You DO NOT need your warmup sheets. • Class manager, read the warmup section of the agenda. • All students: Go write down your missing work in your agenda. • Complete both sides of the rhyme scheme page.

17. Gustatory Imagery • If you use GUSTO, you speak with enthusiasm, so… • In other words: taste imagery • Makes us taste something like we are actually eating or drinking it • Example: She found me roots of relish sweet,   And honey wild, and manna dew, And sure in language strange she said—   “I love thee true.”

18. Gustatory Imagery • Can you find a second example with a partner? • Look for things you can TASTE. • Add it to your foldable and give credit to the author. • Write just the gustatory images, not the whole poem.

19. Gustatory Imagery • Your assignment: • Find one poem with powerful GUSTATORY imagery and add it to your anthology. • Give to credit to author and title. • Then, write your own that includes at least 3 powerful GUSTATORY images. • Highlight the images and add the poem to your anthology. • Work on your figurative language list for the anthology. l

20. Olfactory Imagery • Describes smells in a way that we can smell them too. • Think of a British person saying, “This smells Olful (awful)” • Example: The sour stench of grapes Hung in the air, An oppressive clogging cloud in our nostrils, As through the field we walked.

21. Olfactory Imagery • Can you find a second example with a partner? • Look for things you can SMELL. • Add it to your foldable and give credit to the author. • Write just the olfactory images, not the whole poem.

22. Olfactory Imagery • Your assignment: • Find one poem with powerful OLFACTORY imagery and add it to your anthology. • Give to credit to author and title. • Then, write your own that includes at least 3 powerful OLFACTORY images. • Highlight the images and add the poem to your anthology. • Work on your figurative language list for the anthology.