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Definition of Imagery
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking" contain imagery that engages... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines from Robert Frost's poem "After... read full definition
Imagery, in any sort of writing, refers to descriptive language that engages the human senses. For instance, the following lines... read full definition
Part 1, Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—Musical Worlds:
In Part 1, Chapter 3, when Alex gets into bed after a typical night with the droogs, he uses imagery to describe his feeling of transportation upon hearing classical music, this time a violin concerto by the fictional American composer Geoffrey Plautus:
Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder [...] And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmental, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver
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Part 3, Chapter 2
Explanation and Analysis—God and His Angels:
After drinking a milk-plus at the Korova Milkbar in Part 3, Chapter 2, Alex experiences a vision dense with religious imagery. First, a small scrap of paper grows exponentially:
Unlock with LitCharts A+It got so big that it became not only this whole cubie I was lolling in but like the whole Korova, the whole street, the whole city. Then it was the whole world, then it was the whole everything, brothers, and it was like a sea washing over every vashch that had ever been made or thought of even.
