Definition:
A representation in words of a sensory experience or of an object that can be known by one or more of the senses. See also: imagery.
Etymology:
From the Latin, "image"Examples and Observations:
- "Images are not arguments, rarely even lead to proof, but the mind craves them, and, of late more than ever."
(Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907) - "Far beyond her, a door standing ajar gave on what appeared to be a moonlit gallery but was really an abandoned, half-demolished, vast reception room with a broken outer wall, zigzag fissures in the floor, and a vast ghost of a gaping grand piano emitting, as if all by itself, spooky glissando twangs in the middle of the night."
(Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969) - He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands.
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle") - "Among the strangest illusions which have passed like a haze before my eyes, the strangest one of all is the following: a shaggy mug of a lion looms before me, as the howling hour strikes. I see before me yellow mouths of sand, from which a rough woolen coat is calmly looking at me. And then I see a face, and a shout is heard: 'Lion is coming.'"
(Andrei Bely, "The Lion") - "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough."
(Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro") - "[In] summer the granite curbs starred with mica and the row houses differentiated by speckled bastard sidings and the hopeful small porches with their jigsaw brackets and gray milk-bottle boxes and the sooty ginkgo trees and the banking curbside cars wince beneath a brilliance like a frozen explosion."
(John Updike, Rabbit Redux, 1971)
Pronunciation: IM-idj
