Title: Why do poets use imagery? - Quora
Headings: Why do poets use imagery?
Why do poets use imagery?
Content: Think about how you can create atmosphere and mood through use of words to convey sensory details. Think carefully about your choice of verbs and what such use might suggest to the reader. Think about how the usage will influence their feelings. Ultimately, the imagery you use should contribute to the overall idea or the point you wish to make. It should reflect your desire. Imagery is created using figurative or non-explicit language. Effectively, that is the invocation of a sensory reaction through the use of words. Imagery is achieved using various figures of speech or devices, such as simile, metaphor, synecdoche, personification, and onomatopoeia. Often, a good metaphorical image can convey, in a single line of poetry, more than whole paragraphs of reasoned argument. In that way, imagery is more about intuition than discursive explanation.