ImAgErY

Oliver's chapter on imagery surprisingly didn't really blow my mind this time by mentioning something absurd about poetry or poetic devices that I have never heard of before. In past English classes our teachers have always made sure that they go over the meaning of imagery and how it affects the reader, so this section was more of a reminder to me on how to use the correct words to insert an image into your reader's mind. Imagery to a poet is probably the most important tool that he or she can use while composing their work. A poet usually has a limited amount of space to create a large image for the reader to understand, since your average poem is no more than a page, which in turn can be broken down and theorized into many different symbols and meanings.

Her section on personification though, I am also going to have to disagree with like the others have before in previous blog posts. Oliver views personification as a "silly" that one should not use that often while writing poetry. I can see where she is coming from because many nursery rhymes and fairy tales use this device for their characters, but at the same time it has been used by many famous poets to relate inanimate objects to the reader. Personification allows the author to share with others how he or she may view the rest of the world.