Olfactory Imagery In Poetry. How are the imageries in three poem of ezra pounds constructed. Visual imagery appeals to the sense of sight and plays the largest role in imagery in literature.
A kingdom of stinks and sighs fetor of cockroaches dead fish petroleum. Longfellow writes they silently inhale the clover scented gale and the vapors that arise from the. Theodore rothke my papa s waltz.
Many of these deal with the five senses which all work together to help us create mental images of whatever we are reading.
Visual auditory olfactory gustatory tactile kinesthetic and organic. In this form of poetic imagery the poet appeals to the reader s sense of smell by describing something the speaker of the poem inhales. Dorianne laux from the shipfitter s wife on things asleep. It is the imagery of three analyzed poems namely the return a pact and a virginal.