Imagery is used both in prose and poems. ... Visualization using imagery normally appears in prose than poems. There are good completely imageless poems, imagery should not be confused with actual visual image-making. ... All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ...

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Literary Theory Is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. The word "theory" has become an approach to reading texts. The modern sense of "literary theory" dates only to approximately the 1950s, when the structuralist linguists Ferdinand de Sauss...

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