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Imagery in Poetry
Teaching Team: Miss Disabella and Miss Meyers
What is your favorite color?
❏ How does it taste?
❏ What does it feel like when you touch
it?
❏ What does it look like?
❏ How does it smell? DIRECTIONs:
❏ On your index card, briefly describe your
❏ What does it sound like? favorite color based on the five senses.
❏ Be brief, and try to capture the very
essence of the color.
Why do you think colors are
important when writing
and analyzing poetry?
symbolism
❏ Definition: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
❏ Symbols express mystical ideas, emotions, or states of mind
❏ Examples: the color red could represent love, violence, danger, or anger
❏ Edgar Allen Poe uses red to symbolism danger and death in “The
masque of the red death”
❏ Symbolism originated in late 19th century france and is commonly used
throughout poetry
❏ Green = jealousy, rebirth, money ❏ Gold = happiness
❏ Purple = royalty, enlightenment, fantasy ❏ Red = anger, danger, war, passion, seduction
❏ Brown = earthly qualities ❏ Black = sorrow, death
❏ Orange = curiosity, wisdom ❏ White = purity
❏ Gray = depression, defeat, monotony, boredom ❏ Blue = sadness