Words and Images in Poetry

<Tab/>Words are the building blocks of poetry. Poetry uses words with the utmost economy. They are spoken and writing signifiers of thought, objects and actions. Words create rhythm, rhyme, meter and form, in poetry. Defining the poems speaker, characters, setting and the situation, these words carry its ideas and emotions throughout the poem. Because of this, poets search for perfect, indispensable words, words that convey the many complex meaning, overtones and emotions that all poems require. Poets constantly make conscious and subconscious decisions about diction,…