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POETIC DEVICES:

IMAGERY: Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that

spark off the senses. Despite “Image” being a synonym for, “Picture” ,
images need not be only visual; any of the five senses(Sight, Hearing,
Touch, Taste and Smell)can respond to what a poet writes.

The poem is effective in showing the imagery of woodland. The poet
does this by using the semantic field of a forest (woods, trees,
anemones, etc.)The rhythm of the poem sounds like a horse cantering .
This is aural imagery.

The imagery changes throughout the poem but in the first part ,we can
see an empty space where the road used to be and then trees are
planted to fill in the gap and the rain waters the plants and then we can’t
see where the road was in the forest. And in the second part of the
poem we can imagine going to the forest in summer in the evening and
seeing different animals like the trout, otters and badgers .Also it
describes a woman on a horse cantering in the distance swerving

through the trees.

It is one of the strongest literary devices wherein an author or a poet
uses words and phrases to create ‘mental images’ for the reader.
Imagery helps the readers to visualise and experience what the authors
or poets wish to convey through their writings more realistically.

TRUE RHYME:

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.