Poetic Image: The Body and MeaningImages themselves (when not actively making comparisons or linking to other craft elements) perform a very fundamental role in the way that a reader makes meaning in a text. Robert Hass in his book Twentieth Century Pleasures says of images that “they do not say this is that, they say this is.” Images place something in front of the reader to be observed in some way. This is what sets images apart from other poetic devices like simile or metaphor that function through comparison. An image by itself is very different from an image making a comparison because it is concerned with the existence of something rather than the similarity o
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