Imagery and metaphors

Imagery

Imagery – here udnerstood as the use of descriptive words to convey overall visual images in the minds of readers – is employed in the poem “Tich Miller” by Wendy Cope to create three important scenes (or images). The first image the poem conveys is that of the comical, strange-looking Tich Miller:

Tich Miller wore glasses
with elastoplast-pink frames
and had one foot three sizes larger than the other. (ll. 1-3)

The second overall image the author conveys spreads through stanzas 2-5, which help us imagine the whole scene with the girls being the last ones to be picked for the ball game teams. The third instance of imagery is represented by stanza 6, in which we can imagine the speaker turning into a bully herself and picking on others.

Aside from these overall images, the author also employs three relevant figures of speec...