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What's the best imagery in literature? Especially poetry. Post excerpts.

>> No.14038611

>>14038596
"dumb
whore is
in forest"

original poem and image

>> No.14038620

>>14038596
Ozymandias is probably a good contender

>> No.14038621
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>>14038596
the best imagery is the imagery that services the author's intended emotion.

>> No.14038631

"she femaled
femininely across the
room, her breasts
breasting breastily. her
jeans were tighter
than my asshole"

>> No.14038656
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14038656

third stanza, second line

>> No.14038671
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14038671

Jack Gilbert's imagery is almost criminally persuasive here

>> No.14038975

>>14038596
that one with a deer by Keats

>> No.14038993

>>14038596
Time and the bell have buried the day,
the black cloud carries the sun away.
Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis
Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray
Clutch and cling?
Chill
Fingers of yew be curled
Down on us? After the kingfisher's wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world.

>> No.14039021

>>14038656
really good choice. have you read his fiction? some fantastic imagery there as well

>> No.14039043

>>14038621
Her eyes

>> No.14039062

>>14038656
When I learned Larkin in school I absolutely couldn't stand this ridiculous nonsense. Nothing but proto-woe is me for teenagers. He did at least admit to Wordsworth making him cry in the car at least

>> No.14039093

>>14039062
>He did at least admit to Wordsworth making him cry in the car at least
that's a non-sequitir

>> No.14039111

>>14038596
Anything, anything Shakespeare.

>> No.14039211

>>14038671
Read the first couple of lines, Stephen Fry tier.

>> No.14039217

>>14039093
Haha spelt it wrong!

>> No.14039222

>>14039062
Stupid critique

>> No.14039226

>>14039217
is this the same person that used 'at least' twice in one sentence'?

>> No.14039344
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14039344

The Waves - Woolf

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>>14038596
>>14038621
STOP POSTING HER

>> No.14039409

Claire had more daddy issues than Boy’s Life magazine published in the late 1970s, but she was a perfect match for Donald, whose personality was vaguely sticky, like the outside of a squeezable honey container or anything handled by a three-year-old.

>> No.14040308

>>14038596
this pic is so unbelievably comfy for some reason

>> No.14040425

>>14039344
The word "imagery" reminds me immediately of this passage.

>> No.14040513
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Croit encore à l’adieu suprême des mouchoirs !

The supreme goodbye of the handkerchiefs. Imagine the shiny line of people unfolding their white handkerchiefs in the wind.

>> No.14040520

>>14040513
from Mallarmé Brise Marine