How To Describe Using the 5 Senses
Art deems pleasure in the senses. It is something indescribable, beautiful, and almost intoxicating. To describe, poets use sense impressions like creating images similar in fiction’s, “Show don’t tell.”
Take this sample 1:
Art is
your mouth in my mouth
the fragrance of sea breeze
the drumbeat and church bells
squeaking of rubbing saw
they’re small pounds of a hammer
gliding of twigs
tinkering dishes
creation of Ikebana
Art is
the curve of your jaw
those eyes when you gaze
your untouched lips
the sweetness
when you talk fiercely
The five senses include the sense of touch, smell, sight, hearing and touch.
An activity for students in an English class is to describe people, places and things through their five senses:
Take this sample2:
Sense of sight sun like rays of gold
Sense of taste like honey
Sense of smell brewing coffee
Sense of hearing sound of the forest
Sense of touch your pores, when they open
Description is describing the concrete attributes. One can describe using the figurative language and/or sense impressions.
1.Simile is comparing objects using “as or like.”
Example: Clouds are like cotton balls.
2.A metaphor is direct comparison.
Example: Clouds are cotton balls.
In some books, other than the simile; others are classification of different metaphors.
“Metaphor” is from the Greek word transfer.
3. synesthesia is a blended feeling.
“To the bugle, every color is red.” Emily Dickinson
4.personification is speech endowing human qualities to things.
Heaven cries with me.
5. synecdoche a form of substitution in whole or part
She is a heron.
6. allusion reminds of something or with reference to something
Check out the poems of Plath… (death poems)
Using the five senses will make your speech colorful and interesting. It can give depth or humor, and there’s pleasure in your expression. The exactness and profundity of choosing the right descriptions is gift.
The poet sees a lot of the world, and includes beauty and ugliness in the magic of words creating pleasure and meaning.
Let try this:
Gold
in the coming of dawn
you shepherded
to remind how love should be
perfect.
/rose, ishallwrite
1. How do you explain “gold” here?
2. Who was the shepherd?
3. What figure of speech was used?
The senses work in divine ways. It draws special images and symbols, it builds concrete assemblage of life. And though Carl Jung says “The individual is the only reality,” the poet works hard at these. He/She will describe, specifically, writing in words symbols and images where you can hold and experience something. The poet will bleed for you and you will interpret how you felt it (other than deconstructing the poem, etc) – sharp as bliss. You will come peacefully.
Rose Flores – Martinez
IShallWrite
Art deems pleasure in the senses. It is something indescribable, beautiful, and almost intoxicating. To describe, poets use sense impressions like creating images similar in fiction’s, “Show don’t tell.”
Take this sample 1:
Art is
your mouth in my mouth
the fragrance of sea breeze
the drumbeat and church bells
squeaking of rubbing saw
they’re small pounds of a hammer
gliding of twigs
tinkering dishes
creation of Ikebana
Art is
the curve of your jaw
those eyes when you gaze
your untouched lips
the sweetness
when you talk fiercely
The five senses include the sense of touch, smell, sight, hearing and touch.
An activity for students in an English class is to describe people, places and things through their five senses:
Take this sample2:
Sense of sight sun like rays of gold
Sense of taste like honey
Sense of smell brewing coffee
Sense of hearing sound of the forest
Sense of touch your pores, when they open
Description is describing the concrete attributes. One can describe using the figurative language and/or sense impressions.
1.Simile is comparing objects using “as or like.”
Example: Clouds are like cotton balls.
2.A metaphor is direct comparison.
Example: Clouds are cotton balls.
In some books, other than the simile; others are classification of different metaphors.
“Metaphor” is from the Greek word transfer.
3. synesthesia is a blended feeling.
“To the bugle, every color is red.” Emily Dickinson
4.personification is speech endowing human qualities to things.
Heaven cries with me.
5. synecdoche a form of substitution in whole or part
She is a heron.
6. allusion reminds of something or with reference to something
Check out the poems of Plath… (death poems)
Using the five senses will make your speech colorful and interesting. It can give depth or humor, and there’s pleasure in your expression. The exactness and profundity of choosing the right descriptions is gift.
The poet sees a lot of the world, and includes beauty and ugliness in the magic of words creating pleasure and meaning.
Let try this:
Gold
in the coming of dawn
you shepherded
to remind how love should be
perfect.
/rose, ishallwrite
1. How do you explain “gold” here?
2. Who was the shepherd?
3. What figure of speech was used?
The senses work in divine ways. It draws special images and symbols, it builds concrete assemblage of life. And though Carl Jung says “The individual is the only reality,” the poet works hard at these. He/She will describe, specifically, writing in words symbols and images where you can hold and experience something. The poet will bleed for you and you will interpret how you felt it (other than deconstructing the poem, etc) – sharp as bliss. You will come peacefully.
Rose Flores – Martinez
IShallWrite
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