Imagery In Storm Ending 'And Cut'

They say that as artists, they are given the artistic license to use a play of words in order for them to convey messages, ideas and thoughts. Some make use of paradox, juxtapositions, metaphors, similes and whatnot, while others strike up comparisons between a living being with inanimate objects.There are many reasons as to why authors use imagery and other symbols. One of the many is for them to be able to express more vividly a thought or to bring out an emotion or two from their readers. We’ve heard the old montage “Show, don’t tell” so many times that it’s become stale–and what does it mean, anyway? It’s an easy phrase to utter, but how do you achieve resonant, meaningful description that will make your words come alive? Well, In “Storm Ending” and “Cut” poems, both of those writers use imagery to convey their message and we see the words come to life.
Jean uses “Rumbling in the wind” for the us, the reader to hear and see the wind rumbling. Also, in “Cut” by Sylvia Plath, she uses imagery to portray the image and thrill of almost cutting her thumb off. She first talks about how the “top quite gone; Except for a sort of hinge”(Plath,line 3&4) Both of these writers use imagery in their poems, however if these authors did not use imagery both of these poems would be hard to understand the author's message. In Addition to those poems, the “Bowery Blues Excerpt” and “If We Must Die”(Mckay,line5) have a whole different figurative language to them. In “Bowery Blues Excerpt” it's more confusing about wanting to die. Jack starts out by saying “The story of the man; makes me sick”(Kerouac line 1&2) and that how humanity makes him