Imagery Y'all!

Like everyone else I thought imagery was the greatest part of the prose or poem. I believed that you could tell the reader everything about your creation with a few well placed words. This section didn't really each me anything except that imagery is a smart thing. Everyone knows that expressive words make the most of the writing while keeping it thoughtful and knowing. The problem is that some poems are so short that you have to put all of the imagery in two or three lines, which doesn't seem very smart or very deep. Like everything else in English, imagery is fickle and the rules every changing. There is no right way and if you can explain why you wrote the way you wrote, everything is fine and you are the greatest writer in the world for being so innovative. Poetry can be changed with an "an" or a "the" in front of "apple." Imagery doesn't have to be complex and deep, instead it could be simple and just as deep.