Poetry Often Use Imagery As Essay

The message of the poem is the longing for life and youth. In this case as well the images have a strong symbolical dimension, the light must be understood as life and youth, whereas the night as death and decay. Just as the title suggests it, there are people who will not easily accept their fate. "Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, / And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, / Do not go gentle into that good night" (Thomas, 10-12). Wild is a state of mind and the sun in flight is a symbol of freedom and creation. The imagery creates spiritual landscapes which unite the poet and the reader.

Shakespeare in his sonnet "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" makes a clear opposition between elements of nature and parts of the body of the woman he loves. On the one hand we have the sun, the red coral, white snow, red and white roses, delightful perfumes to depict a n almost perfect nature.The human on the other hand is imperfect: "Black wires grow on her head" (Shakespeare, 4) or "My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground" (Shakespeare, 12).The imagery is very strong through the opposition between nature which appears young and beautiful and the woman who seems to be in a process of decay. The opposition becomes even more striking when the poet declares "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/As any she belied with false compare" (Shakespeare, 13-14) when the reader realizes that love has nothing to do with aspect, but rather with the human essence. The imagery in this case serves to convey a very strong idea about the human spirit.

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Heaney, Seamus. "Bogland"

Shakespeare, W. "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"

Thomas, D. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"

Yeats, W.B. "The Lake Island….....