Imagery includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature. It signifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor. Imagery is not limited to visual imagery; it also includes auditory (sound), tactile (touch), thermal (heat and cold), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and kinesthetic sensation.

In the poem imagery is used explicitly. For example

•The sun in the heavens was beaming (visual)

• breeze bore an odor of hay (olfactory /smell) Pick up at least five more images.

The poet "Missed" is rich in images that gives us a feel of reality. It brings us closer to the idea that is being manifested in the poem. Other such examples of imagery in the poem are-

i) My flannels were spotless and gleaming

- This is an example of visual imagery. It gives us a view of clean uniform of the player/narrator which was shining bright in sunlight.

ii) The bee was droning its favorite song

- This is an auditory image as it triggers the sound of the bees buzzing its favorite songs within us.

iii) When, ah! horror! there soared through the air

- This is a visual imagery as it gives us the mental picture of the horror gliding through the air.

iv) A loud yell of ecstasy rang

- This again is as auditory image as we could feel the yell of ecstasy ringing throughout the crowd.

v) I tore with a wrench from my thatch

- This is an example of tactile (touch) imagery where we can feel the narrator pulling up his hair in regret.