"Imagery is the essential component in poetry". Discuss the appropriateness of this claim with reference to two poets studied.

"Imagery is the essential component in poetry".
Discuss the appropriateness of this claim with reference to two poets studied.
Imagery in poetry gives it depth, interest and feeling, in short it makes it come alive. There are various ways of doing this with imagery; with straightforward descriptive writing or using metaphors(of which there are a few different kinds), similes and symbolism. In order to show the absolute appropriateness of the claim that imagery is an essential component in poetry, I will be using examples from the work of Philip Larkin and Thom Gunn. The specific poems I w…