[New-Poetry] Re: Substitution of Terms

[Skip Fox]

Auditory, olfactory, etc. are used commonly with the word "imagery," and
imagery is taught that way in many texts. Thus, one could speak of the
auditory imagery of instrumental sounds ("the squeal and the blare and the /
tweedle of bagpipes") in a certain poem (like Williams's "The Dance").
There's every reason to treat "image" in the same fashion, with five
subclasses, one of which (visual) is usually presupposed if one of the
others is not designated. A bit pedestrian or simplistically academic, but
that seems to be its current usage.

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Grumman
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Re: Substitution of Terms

> What is a musical note then? Or any other "abstract" sound? It might
> provoke an image, but isn't necessarily itself one. It can be
> contained in a concept and trigger an emotion, but seems to be
> neither.

I define the musical note as an auditory image.  Is there another term for 
it?

> What about a bad odor?

Olfactory image.  But I'm pretty sure others would not use image in this 
way.  But what would they use?  On the other hand, I think many people might

consider the odor of a rose part of their image of a rose.

I'm thinking of image as perceptual complex, but maybe that would be the 
term to use, with "image" indicating a subcategory of perceptual complex, 
the visual perceptual complex.  It is some kind of perceptual complex that I

believe the words of a poem create along with ideas and emotions.

--Bob
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