What tactless asses we are, you and I, boney nose,Īnd now it is the souring flowers of the bedraggled Nose of mine! what will you not be smelling? The smell of wintry evening mixes with the steak smoke and further merges with the smell of the beer. The first two lines and the last line of the above-mentioned example is reflecting the Olfactory imagery.

Thus allowing the readers to understand the surroundings of the apple farm. He beautifully merged olfactory imagery with visual imagery to take the reader to the desired height of imagination and feelings. In these lines, frost allows the reader to enjoy the smell of apples, he didn’t mention the type of apple as he left its smell for the imagination of the reader. I skimmed this morning from the drinking troughĪnd held against the world of hoary grass I got from looking through a pane of glass I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight The imagery here is very rich in emotions and feelings that explain hard work and lifts the reader to the level of the writer’s imagination. In the above example, the poet has very successfully used olfactory imagery using the words ‘smoking soil’ and ‘clover scented gale’. They silently inhale The clover-scented gale, The markets and the streets were probably never cleaned, the people had no facilities to clean their bodies or teeth unlike the royalty and rich people who enjoy all the knacks. Especially in areas where peasants or poor people lived without amenities and water. The hidden animal in human disguise is also described through odors that are released by sweat and the lack of basic hygiene. In the above-mentioned example writer discussed the surroundings of the 18th century using olfactory imagery and the unsentimental behavior of that time. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease.” The stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat the unaired parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets, damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber pots. “In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women.

Auditory imagery in sport example