[New-Poetry] Re: Substitution of Terms

[Skip Fox]

Just by way of standard definition, imagery is limited to "representation
through language of sense experience" (Perrine freshman text). It goes on:

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The word _image_ perhaps most often suggests a mental picture--and _visual_
imagery is the kind of imagery that occurs most frequently in poetry. But an
image may also represent a sound (_auditory imagery_); a taste (_gustatory
imagery_); touch, such as hardness, softness, wetness, or heat and cold
(_tactile imagery_); an internal sensation, such as hunger, thirst, fatigue,
or nausea (_organic imagery_); or movement or tension in the muscles or
joints (_kinesthetic imagery_).

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Perrine (or Arp) then goes on to allow for the possibility of more than
"five or even six senses," which certain psychologists allow for.

Bob _is_ in the mainstream, or in one of its currents.

(Perrine, Laurence, and Thomas R. Arp. _Literature: Structure, Sound, and
Sense_. 6th ed. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt, 1993. 569.)



On the off-track:

But then Perrine "corrects" Dickinson's punctuation and capitalization. (I
got a long letter from Arp when I wrote them about this. Mostly blowing
smoke up my ass--I could have gone for _tactile_ imagery, but thought I'd be
nice. The text has since revered to Johnson's general presentation of her
work with comma-dashes &c..)