The poet seeking to express his experience of a sunny day on a beach must therefore provide a selection of the sense impressions he has, and the use of imagery (the collection of images in a literary work) will serve him best. It will consist of seeing blue sky white clouds, and green palm trees of hearing the crashing waves’ and swallows singing in the sky of smellingsalty air and feeling a fresh wind against my cheek or moist sand on my feet. But most of it will be a cluster of sense impressions. My experience of a sunny day on a beach, for instance, may consist partly of certain emotions I feel and partly of certain thoughts I think. We experience the world through our five senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.
