Imagery Essay

Procrastinator. He’s jogging. Running. Sprinting. His feet hit the pavement hard. He must reach the end, feel the satisfaction of his sneakers crossing the final yellow line, to catch his breath. The deadline dragon breathes down his neck, races closer as he begins to stumble. He falls, knees and elbows scrape along the rough road, leaving traces of blood on the rocks. He regrets not training for this, not bolting at the first sign of danger - he should have began two weeks ago, even two days…

In “The Fish”, Elizabeth Bishop described the fish that was being caught and through the imagery readers can decipher the age of the fish. In lines 9-11 of the “The Fish”, it describes that the fishes’ “brown skin hung in strips like an ancient wallpaper”, the readers can use this information and guess that the fish must be at an old age. It would be different if Bishop said that the fish was old because then you couldn’t see why the fish was considered old. Bishop described that the fish has…

Shakespeare 's play, Hamlet, Shakespeare uses clothing imagery to convey the theme of "is versus seems" and reflects on the superficiality or authenticity of the characters. The vanity and pettiness of the courtiers, which are portrayed through the symbol of clothing, are the reasons Hamlet, the protagonist and Prince of Denmark, is enraged and indignant towards the members of the royal family and the court. The theme of “is versus seems” and the imagery of Hamlet’s black mourning clothes,…

Imagery Rehearsal Therapy was originally developed for persons experiencing nightmares which were not associated with a traumatic response (Pagel et al., 2014; Krakow & Zadra, 2006). Yet, as we saw earlier, approximately 72% of persons with PTSD experience nightmares thus researchers began to examine the possibility of IRT for persons with trauma-related nightmares. In a randomized control study, Krakow et al. (2001) examined the effectiveness of IRT against a wait-list control group for 168…

In the novel The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the literary element of imagery to create a vivid image in the reader's mind and set the mood. A specific example of this was when Nick the chauffeur, butler and gardener go down by the pool to see what had happened to Gatsby, they look and, “With little ripples that were hardly shadows of waves[...] a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water,” (Fitzgerald 140).…

Imagery is the use of visually descriptive or figurative language in order to transform a story and to set its mood. William Shakespeare impressively brought about this transformation in his play Macbeth by embedding imagery in the brilliantly concentrated phrases of his play. He takes a gory tale from Scottish history of murderous ambition, and reconstructs it into an imaginative tale of good and evil. The imagery of blood, witchcraft and the chaos of nature contribute greatly to the mood in…

Epic of Gilgamesh: The Imagery Within Imagery greatly influences readers’ understanding of literary works. Instead of the pages of a book containing just words, they contain a mental picture within those words. Imagery is the color of the story. “The Battle with Humbaba”, an excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh, is one such colorful story. Within the epic, the depictions of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Humbaba are unveiled by imagery. In “The Battle with Humbaba”, Gilgamesh, the main hero of the epic,…

In ‘1914’, Owen uses imagery principally drawn from images of seasons and nature to expose the destructive nature of war. From the publication of ‘1914’ to the publication of ‘Futility’ his use of images changes from seeing war as an abstract thing, simply what he imagined it to be to something concrete in his mind that he can’t erase. Both of the poems are sonnet but interestingly not an ode to love which emphasise how Owen has used sonnets to adapt to suit his purpose of exploiting the…

The technical term, eidetic imagery, is so much more than having a really good memory. Eidetic imagery is defined as the ability to retain images in memory that are almost perfect photographic quality. A person who has eidetic imagery can simply look at any image including a map, drawing, or essay, and mentally recall it later. The rarity of a photographic memory can be seen within studies and cases. The concerning question follows whether or not eidetic imagery exists. According to the…

In the Maryanne Moore poem, “A Grave” imagery of “the sea” is used to represent something larger than life itself, concealed from within the viewpoint of a graveyard. Throughout the poem, symbolic and metaphoric imagery addresses an argumentative stance of “human nature” not being able to “stand in the middle” of "the sea" and ultimately one's own life (3-4). The idea of the vast sea representing a mysterious entity is seen through the viewpoint of a grave that is metaphorically argued through…