Abstract
Poetry is one of the chief ingredients of the textbooks taught in the classes of language as well as arts that appeals to our senses in several domains. Imagery in poetry bears pictographic impact on the minds of the readers. This study aims at finding out what kind of imagery and images are employed in the book and how far they succeed in bringing about pictographic impact on the minds of the students. Content analysis of the poems in qualitative paradigm was adopted for this study. Direct and indirect interviews of the students were also conducted. It was found out that the poems of the book contained all pervasive versatile imagery. Moreover, the images and imagery had verbal as well as visual impact on the minds of the students that helped them improve their memory, increase their vocabulary, enhance comprehension, and develop interest in reading.
Highlights
Poetry falls in the arena of art and all art is imaginative
Poetry is painting with the gift of speech [Simonides 556 – 468 BC]
Total 1230 images were found in the poetry portion of the textbook
Summary
If the real world is beautiful, art transforms it into par excellence. This excellence takes birth in the minds of the poets and shifts into the brains of the readers depending upon the success of the poet. Imagery helps the readers visualize the poems that build mental pictures – a permanent source of learning language and enjoying the piece. The poetry embellished with imagery can rightly be called poetry appealing to our senses. Such imagery imprints images in our minds. The stronger the image in their mind, the more important the concept is to them (Major, 2012)
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