Hulme belived that the poetic image is the essential factor in modern poetry. Hulme's thought and poetic theory was prevailed on many poets and critics, so eventually most of them came to believe that the image is not a part of the poem, but it is the...
Hulme belived that the poetic image is the essential factor in modern poetry. Hulme's thought and poetic theory was prevailed on many poets and critics, so eventually most of them came to believe that the image is not a part of the poem, but it is the poem.
The sensory appeals in poetry which we have considered are usually referred to as images, an image being understood to be the "mental or imagined representation of anything not actually presented to us.
The term imagery is widely used to mean images in general but Is used by some critics to mean exclusively metaphorical or figurative language. But the word Imagery is used here in the sense of pertaining to imaginatively perceived sensory experience.
I also agree to Kreuzer's seven types of image deriving from man's basic five senses, and thermal sense and kinesthetic sense. That is, visual image, auditory image, gustatory image, olfactory image, tactile image, thermal image and Kinesthetic image.
Man's life is enriched in direct proportion to the enrichment and refinement of his sensory experiences. On this account, as he is able to understand the highly intricate and subtle appeals in poetry and to respond to the varied sensory appeals in poetry, he enriches the very experience of living, and finds new sources of significantly pleasurable experince.
In conclusion, I think that poetry appeals powerfully to the whole man-to man thinking, to man feeling, to man undergoing sensation.