Term 1: Visual Imagery: Is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent images, objects, actions or ideas. In the poem Driving to Town Late Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly, the author uses Visual Imagery to describe the view of the day. When Bly uses “It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted” (1), we can picture it as if we were with the speaker driving around on a lonely and cold day. Visual Imagery is important to this piece of literature because it allows us to picture what is going on based on the choice of words of the author.
Term 2: Tactile Imagery: Is describe with adjectives based on our sense of touch. It stimulates the reader imagination. In line 3 Bly says “As I lift the mailbox door, I feel