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Imagery Analysis Of Brian Moses Selected Children’s Poems
Imagery is one of the most important elements of poems which contains a
mental picture in every word that the poem uses to evoke the experience of the reader and elicit imagination. This research analyzes imagery in four children’s poems by Brian Moses: “The Budgie Like To Boogie, Selfies With Komodos, Walking With My Iguana, and The Snake Hotel”. The research was analyzed using Laurence Perrine’s (1992) theory about types of imagery. Qualitative descriptive method was used to find the types of imagery in the four selected children’s poems by Brian Moses. The technique to analyzed this data is reading the poem and then identify the types of imagery in this poem. The dominant types of imagery in this research are visual and auditory imagery, and there are two types of imagery no found in these four selected children’s poems namely olfactory and gustatory imagery. This research contributes to our understanding of how implicit language particularly imagery seen in poems and our daily interactions, and can be used to convey the meaning of the poems. This research can help to understand the meaning and what the author’s message.
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