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3. The rules and features of imagist Poetry
In literature, Imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical five senses. According to Steven Croft and Hellen Cross, an image is a language use in such a way as to help us to see, hear, feel, thing about or generally understand more clearly or vividly what is being said or the impression that the writer wishes to convey. Siswantoro explains that imagery can be meant as a mental picture, a picture, portrait or picture illusion created as a result of a reader's reaction in understanding the poem. Imagery emerges as a process to continue imagism developing an active reader to find explicit meanings in the text. To find the imagery, the readers must have good readings supported by the mastery of vocabulary, grammar, and cultural aspects. The readers have to be aware that the text is not our language, so we must adjust with enthusiasm the other text. Because of that the readers will be able to understand imagery by having a good participant with cognitive and emotional. Imagery draws on the five senses, namely the details of taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound. When a writer attempts to describe something so that it appeals to our sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing; he/she has used imagery. As a literary device, imagery comprises of imaginative descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature and also add symbolism to the work. Imagery helps the reader to visualize more realistically the autho’s writings. Often, imagery is built on other literary devices, such as simile or metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia etc. as the author uses comparisons to appeal to our senses besides it needs the aid of figures of speech in order to appeal to the bodily senses. AsPerrine in the book of Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (1992:49) state, “But an image may also represent sound (auditory imagery); a smell (olfactory imagery); a taste (gustatory imagery); touch as a hardness, softness, wetness, or heat and cold (tactile imagery); an internal sensation, such as hunger, thirst, fatigue, or nausea (kinesthetic imagery).” So in other word, we may say that imagery is a language that appeals to the sense. Description of people or objects stated in terms of our senses. Imagery usually calls a mental picture in a poem, where the readers can experience what the poem says. Essentially the true “meaning” of a poem lies in the total effect that it has upon the readers. Very often that effect stimulates a response which is not just a reaction to what poet has to say, but which draws on the readers‟ intellectual and emotional experience. Imagery can be of centralimportance in creating this response within the readers. In literature, one of the strongest devices is imagery wherein the author uses words and phrases to create “mental images” for the reader. Imagery can also pertain to details about movement or a sense of a body in motion (kinesthetic imagery) or the emotions or sensations of a person, such as fear or hunger (organic imagery or subjective imagery). visual imagery is an imagery which relates tothe visual imagination and it is a kind of imagery that appears mostly in the poembecause almost words represented in the poem are basically seeable. Sometimes,that seen in the mind eye which called by sight effect. Despite "image" being a synonym for "picture", images need not be only visual; anyof the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell) can respond to what a poetwrites. Poets combine the use of language and a specific structure to createimaginative and expressive work. The structures used in some poems types are alsoused when considering the visual effect of a finished poem. The structures of manytypes of poetry result in groups of lines on the page which increase the poem'scomposition. The visual imagery is given the reader an ability to form mental imagesof things or events imagery, the ability to form mental images of things or events inthe poem. Without visual imagery, apoem may hard to produce. For example: Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay Then thousand saw I at glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance In our imagination, appear the daffodil stretches along line like the start thatshine on the Milky Way. The daffodils stretched in never ending line along themargin of a bay. Auditory imagery is an imagery which relates to the auditory. This image represents sounds like words “buzzing, tinkling, and chiming” and others related to the sound. This imagery is developed by the poet to make an auditory imaginative in poem. The auditory imagery that evokes in poem is not like auditory perception. It means, when the reader reads it, he only fell the sense of hearing but not really hearing in purpose. For example: Hear the sledges with the bells— With silver bell! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they are tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, The speaker invites us to hear the bells. The silver bells not iron or the copper bells, it makes the bell more melodious, then the start follows the bell jingle⁸. The reader can feel strong sense of hearing in this poem. Tactile imagery is an imagery which relates to tactile sense such as coldand warm. This imagery has relationship with the temperature like heat and coldor our touch sense. For example: A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed These two simple lines bring the reader to feel the heat of hell, which is described like as dungeon. We will fell stuffy and tight, then all wall around the dungeon feel like a great furnace flamed. Pound‟s words, “The Garden” was composed in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome. As a result, The Garden can be defined as a prominent imagist literary work in terms of its free verse meter and its direct approach to the theme of the dying aristocracy. Pound‟s contributions to the world of poetry through such distinctive poems as The Garden were unprecedented. Although he abandoned the Imagist movement only two years after its birth for Vorticism, Pound‟s instigation of the Imagist movement spawned the discovery of many remarkable poets, including William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and T.S. Eliot, each of whom would follow in Pound‟s footsteps, making Imagism a prominent literary movement in the early 100‟s The Garden Ezra Pound En robe de parade. Samain LIKE a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. It begins with the introduction of a wealthy woman who is walking through Kensington Gardens. She is extremely graceful, like “loose silk,” but within her is a conflict. She is dying in the world she lives in, the rules of society, and her life of manners, is breaking her “piece-meal” and draining her of human emotion. She is moving through the garden and passes a “rabble” of poor children. These “infants” are dirty and described as being “unkillable.” They are stronger than the upper classes, certainly stronger than this woman, and will one day “inherit the earth.” Pound saw a change coming in society and his speaker, is well aware of the conflict that it is creating within this unnamed woman. The speaker can see that she, in one way, wants to be spoken to, but in another, is fearfully of that event occurring. She knows it would be an “indiscretion” opposed of by her family. She wants to reach out to the poor on the streets, but is not quite brave enough yet.⁹