Imagery In Fogle's Synaethesia

Karl Beck son and Arthur Gang define the term “Synaethesia” as the intermingling of sensations; the sensing for example of certain sounds through colors or odors .(Beck son and Ganz,209) .Fogle , while amplifying Professor June E. Downey”s concept of synasthesia ,hints at the possibility of visual participation in some of the sensation clusters concerned : “ The function of all poetic imagery is to order ,relate, and unify desperate modes of physical, mental and emotional experience .Synaesthesia is a particular species of imagery which propose chiefly to establish relationships between the different modes of sensations, finding, for example, analogies between color and music , music and odor, odor and color.” (Fogle,101) .Fogle gives evidence from Baudelaire’s Correspondences and says that in this Sonnet the poet describes and exemplifies the synaesthetic image as he sees it from his own particular angle (Fogle,102). While dissecting and examining the Sonnet’s sensory content, Fogle comments “Scents, colors and sounds melt and mingle with each other like far –off, fading echoes, perfumes are Fresh as the flesh of babes, sweet as oboes, green as meadows. The ultimate result is unity of sensation, vast, shadowy, and profound “. (Fogle,102) Williams Carlos Williams drew his …show more content…
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