Assalamualykum, I’m the continuation of the report of Mr.

Isman, which is the types of

imagery. So I have here 2 types the auditory and gustatory imagery.

Auditory imagery is used to explain things, ideas and actions using sounds that appeal to our
sense of hearing. It is intended to invoke up sound images in the minds of the readers.
-in literature, it means to use words and literary devices in a way that they make readers
experience sounds when reading poetry or prose.
-it gives the writers a tool to make their texts vibrant and gripping with the use of the words
targeting to the sense of hearing of the readers. In fact, it is deliberately inserted to evoke
sensory experiences.
-in this sense, it makes the texts appealing to the ears. Its pivotal role is to make the readers
connect to the text. As you can see, It is written as a phrase of two words auditory and
imagery. It means that it is related to the images of sounds that we feel in our ears through
words.
Example 1;
To Autumn (John Keats)
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of the, thou hast thy music too.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a willful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the rivers shallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn:
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

-To Autumn is a phenomenal poem that relates the life’s stages to the autumn season. The
poem explores the phenomenon of unconventional appreciation for the fall season. It
comprises the experience of the poet, his meditation and poetic imagination.
-However, Keats has used auditory imagery in this final paragraph of the poem where animal
sounds appealing to the sense of hearing such as, ‘lambs loud bleat”, “hedge cricket sing’, ‘the
red-breast whistles’ and ‘gathering swallows twitter’.
Example 2:
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

-this poem captures the pill between man and nature. It is about the limitations in which
human beings lead their lives, and which never allow them to get distracted from their targets
in life. The wandering speaker intends to stay longer in the catchy woods, but the pull of
obligations forces him to leave the woods. Therefore, he suppresses his desire and moves on.
-Robert Frost has used auditory imagery in this poem to make the scenes even more realistic
such as, ‘harness bells a shake” and sound of “easy wind and downy flake”. This auditory
imagery is coupled with the thematic strand of the poem giving the readers a sense of the bells
shaking and wind blowing.

Gustatory imagery allows the readers to imagine the sense of taste while reading a poem or
text. It is more functional and effectual when an author describes a taste that the reader has
already experienced.
-To stimulate the reader’s taste buds, the writer describes the appealing and suitable use of
imagery when the characters breathe, eat or visit an unusual place that fills the atmosphere.
-Thus, through this imagery, the writer creates a picture in the reader’s mind that approaches
that specific taste which writer wants a reader to imagine. This all depends on the richness of
gustatory imager. It includes metallic, sweetness, saltiness, sourness, spiciness, and bitterness.
Example 1:
This is Just To say (William Carlos William)
I have eaten the plums
That were in the icebox
And which you were probably saving
For breakfast
Forgive me
They were delicious
So sweet
And so cold

-Here, this poet is discussing the taste of sweet icy plums. The imagery helps the writer to make
the reader imagine the cool syrupy taste of the fruit and cool drink.

Example 2:
Cooking (Jonathan Swift)
Gently blow and stir the fire,
Lay the mutton down to roast,
Dress it nicely I desire,
In the dripping put a toast,
That I hunger may remove:
Mutton is the meat I love.

-In the above lines, make the reader imagines the texture of tender meat, which is also chewy
and fleshy food with tasty spices.

Example 3:
To Earthward (Robert Frost)
I craved strong sweets, but those
Seemed strong when I was young;
The petal of the rose
It was that stung.
Now no joy but lacks salt,
That is not dashed with pain
-in the above lines, the poet very impressively flavored his words with sweet and salt to express
his emotions and feelings as if he were tasting rose petals too.
SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT, AUDITORY DESCRIBES WHAT WE HEAR 9MUSIC, SILENCE,
NOISE) AND GUSTATORY DESCRIBES WHAT WE TASTE (SOUR, SWEET, ACIDIC, BITTER, SALTY)