Imagery

Imagery is the creation of a sensual experience. In analyzing imagery: Identify what you are being made to experience. Reflect on the effect of that experience. Determine what type of image it is: visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory? Characterize it--literal, kinesthetic, other traits(?) Keeping in mind your answer to the second step, determine why we are being made to experience what we are being made to experience in the exact way we are experiencing it. Connect it to the poet's purpose, idea, and his desired effect.