Exploring Auditory Imagery
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Auditory imagery is a literary technique that appeals to our sense of hearing by using sounds to describe things, ideas, and actions. It aims to create mental images of sounds as we read. In literature, auditory imagery involves using words and literary devices to make readers experience sounds when reading poetry or prose. Examples of Auditory Imagery in Literature Example #1 To Autumn by John Keats Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. In John Keats' poem "To Autumn," auditory imagery is used to bring …