To_See_Things_In_A_New_Way

To See Things In A New Way POETRY Question: Poets use figurative or descriptive language in a deliberate attempt to help the reader to see things in a new way. Discuss the use of imagery in at least three of the poems you have studied this semester, indicating how the poet uses imagery to propel the reader’s attention to a particular understanding. Answer: Through the use of figurative imagery and descriptive language, poets are able to manipulate the minds of their audience, thus providing a vivid message propelling the reader’s attention to a particular understanding, allowing them to see things in a new way. Poetry allows the reader to become oblivious to the obvious, thus allowing them to see things in a much simpler and yet extraordinary way. The greatest example of this is Andrea Whitaker’s poem, “World”. Through the use of epiphany, the revealing of new revelations, and metaphors, “A jewel on the edge of oblivion”, and “a single oasis in a desert of eternity”, the poet invokes the reader to see the Earth as a precious “gem of life”, rather than the obvious, which is a planet in space. Moreover, when combined with the chimera of descriptive language and figurative imagery, as poetry, poet, reader, life, imagery, thus, nature, message, figurative, way, time, through, things, realise, new, lines, language, descriptive, allowing, able, world, obvious, much, materialism, greatest, further, example, environment, earth, destroying, away, allows, vivid, understanding, understand