Imagery is a poetic element that tries to make a picture in the mind of the reader or a mental image through the use of figural language. It represents objects, places, ideas, or even actions that appeal to the senses of the readers.

1. What image does the poem, Gabu, try to create? 

2. Which word or group of words from the poem help you form this image? Draw this on a separate sheet of paper.

      

Imagery is a poetic element that tries to create a picture in the mind of the reader or a mental image through the use of figural language. It represents objects, places, ideas, or even actions that appeal to the senses of the readers. Gabu by Carlos A. Angeles The battering restlessness of the sea Insists a tidal fury upon the beach At Gabu, and its pure consistency And neutral where the sea has beached its brine, Where the spilt salt of its heart lies spread Among the dark habiliments of Time. The vital splendor misses. For here, here Havos the wasteland hard within its reach. Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart Against the seascape where, for miles around, Farther than sight itself, the rock- stones part And drop into the elemental wound. The waste of centuries is grey and dead At Gabu where the ageless tide recurs All things forfeited are most loved and dear. It is the sea pursues a habit of shores.