The Maid’s Lament, a poem by Walter Savage Landor uses imagery and metaphors in order to assert the message that people should allow themselves to love and express that love while the person is still living. Walter Savage Landor utilizes imagery in order to illustrate a clear picture of the maid’s dead lover. Landor describes the lover as he is dead,“quieter is his breath, his breast more cold”(line 21) without this line, the audience wouldn’t know clearly that the maid’s lover passed away and they couldn’t infer that she was with him as he passed away. Imagery creates scenes in your head that are left to be seen in your imagination and the abundant use of imagery in this poem allowed the maid’s story to be told in a way that allows for sympathy
