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Conveying Impression/ Experience:
A poet
conveys his impression/ experience through a poem by using “Image”.
Image:
Though the term image suggest a thing seen, When
speaking of images in poetry, we generally mean ” a word or sequence of words
that refers to any sensory experience” often this experience is a sight( Visual
Imagery) ,but it may be sound( Auditory Imagery) or a touch, as a perception of
roughness or smoothness( Tactile Imagery) and perception of something cold and
hot (Thermal Imagery) and feelings of movement(Motor Imagery), perhaps he
bodily sensations such as pain, the prickling gooseflesh, the quenching of
thirst etc.
Imagery of A Poem:
An image may occur in a single word, a phrase, a
sentence or as in this ease an entire short poem to speak of the imagery of a
poem_ all its images taken together_ is often more useful than to speak of
separate image. To divide Buson’s Haiku in to five images_ chill, wife, comb,
bedroom, heel_ is possible, for any noun that refers to a visible object or
sensate in an image. Indeed, same critics look for much of the meaning of a
poem in its imagery, wherein they expect to see the mind of the poet more truly
revealed than in whatever the poet explicitly claims to believe.
“The Image” in Ezra Pound’s Words:
“An image” Is that which presents an intellectual
and emotional complex in an instant of time. Use the term ‘complex’ rather in
the technical sense employed by the new psychologist.
It is representation of such a ‘Complex’ instant
tenuously which gives that sense of sudden liberation, that sense of freedom
firm time limits and space limits, that sense sudden growth, which we
experience in the presence of the greatest works of art. It is better to
present one's image in a lifetime then to produce voluminous works.
