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Poet communicates an experience. The poet's communication is received by our senses. The senses consist of seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling and touching. The poet has to create an image to stimulate any of these senses. This is called imagery. It can be defined as the representation of an experience through language.
Though visual imagery is most often used in poetry, an image may also represent a sound, a smell, a touch or a feeling or sensation. In this poem, the poet has made use of various types of imagery:
- scorpion crawling beneath a sack of rice
- peasants came like swarms of flies
- smell of candles
- smell of burning oil in the lanterns
- scorpion biting the mother
- father pouring paraffin on the toe.
- buzzed the name of god a hundred times
- they clicked their tongues
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