Basic Elements Can Have Advanced Effects On Interpretation

Aaron Allison
English Composition II
Mr. Todd Sukany
21 May 2003
Basic Elements Can Have Advanced Effects On Interpretation
A poem is only appreciated as well as it is interpreted. Poets apply and use different elements to affect the interpretations of a particular poem. In “Mirror” and “To A Daughter Leaving Home,” the poets of each of these poems use the elements of imagery, tone, and symbolism to mold the way their reader decodes the message of their poems.
Imagery is a widely used literary tool in all forms of poetry. A reader can appreciate imagery because it is a representation of something they can recognize using one of the five senses (Sagan 22). Imagery is a very basic concept to comprehend in literature, and that is why it is easy for the reader to recognize an object, a taste, smell, or sound and attribute meaning to it. Poets can use imagery to either define a concrete meaning in their poetry, or to perhaps entail a hidden meaning lying in a simile or me...