Imagery in

Poetry
-Listen to the song Funny the
Way it is by The Dave Mathews
Band

-write down any images that come

to your mind as you read and hear
the lyrics
Funny the Way it is by The Dave
Mathews Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG4uSJUcads
Imagery is the name
given to the elements
in a poem that spark
off the senses.
Images need not be only
visual; any of the five
senses (sight, hearing,
touch, taste, smell) can
respond to what a poet
writes.
Seashell

shell at my ear-
come share how I hear
busy old sea in whispers.

Moans rise from ancient depths By James Berry

in ocean sighs http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/seashell

like crowds of ghost monsters.

Waves lash and fall-

in roars and squalls
with all a mystery ahhh!
Senses help convey a
message to readers by
providing a strong image
in their heads.
Pick any topic you like
and brainstorm sensory
images for that topic.
For example:

Topic: Ice Cream

Taste: smooth, cold, melt in your mouth, sweet

Touch: Wet, cold, slimy, frozen

Sight: mountains, white as snow (vanilla), little

crevices, puddles (when it melts)
For example:

Smell: sweet, minty (mint chocolate chip)

Hearing: plop, splat (when it falls on the floor)

Draw an image for
the poem
Ozymandias by
Percy Bysshe
Shelley, 1792 - 1822
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
 Where Im From by
George Ella Lyon

Follow along and circle

any images that you find!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9KwCTJRyI