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Image and Symbol Image Broadly defined, an image is a word or a sequence of words which refers to any sensory experience. The term “image” should not be taken to imply a visual reproduction of the object referred to. C. Day Lewis an image “is a picture made out of words,” “poem may itself be an image composed from a multiplicity of images.” imagery is used to signify all the objects and qualities of sense perception referred to in a poem by literal description, by allusion, or in analogues as in similes and metaphors. Visual Auditory tactile (touch) thermal (heat or cold) olfactory (smell) gustatory (taste) kinesthetic (sensations of movement) Imagery The pattern of related images in a poem is called “imagery.” Imagery is said to make poetry concrete, opposed to abstract. The meaning of a poem is often created or developed through its imagery. Imagism a name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 and represented by Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others, aiming at clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images. In the early period often written in the French form Imagisme. Symbol A symbol is a special kind of image, for it exceeds the image in the richness of its connotations. Like images, a symbol can be an object, a sound, or a bodily sensation. It can also be a character, or an act. Symbol “In a literary sense a symbol combines a literal and sensuous quality with an abstract or suggestive aspect…Literary symbols are of two broad types: One includes those embodying universal suggestions of meaning, as flowing water suggests time and eternity, a voyage suggests life. Such symbols are used widely (and sometimes unconsciously) in literature. The other type of symbol acquires its suggestiveness not from qualities inherent in itself but from the way in which it is used in a given work. Thus, in Moby-Dick the voyage, the land and the ocean are objects pregnant with meanings that seem almost independent of Melvilles use of them in his s