The poem “January”, written by poet William Carlos Williams, uses imagery to paint a vivid picture in the mind of the reader. Williams also uses descriptive language and the metaphor of wind and the sentences the narrator is bound to, to exemplify the picture in the reader’s mind. A particular example of imagery in the poem is when William states “And the wind, as before fingers perfectly it’s derisive music.” In this quote, Williams expands to the senses of auditory and touch. He expands to the senses of touch when he say’s “fingers perfectly..”and he expands to the senses of auditory when he says “its derisive music”. By Williams doing this, he allows the reader to immerse more deeply in the poem and the message hidden inside.
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