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Thu 27 Mar, 2014 09:24 pm
In poetry, if the language produces some images in your brain, could they be called IMAGERY/IMAGERIES? If the word is correct, then when can we use IMAGERIES, the plural form? I've consulted several dictionaries online, none of them have the plural form. All singular.
@WBYeats,
Imagery refers to a body of images.
the word is correct, then when can we use IMAGERIES, the plural form?
@WBYeats,
At first blush, i hafta say that I don't believe I've ever heard or read that word, WB.
So you think IMAGERIES is wrong and the singular only correct?
(The other member seems to have been not talking about IMAGERY, so I do not know whether you're referring to IMAGERIES)
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:
So you think IMAGERIES is wrong and the singular only correct?
(The other member seems to have been not talking about IMAGERY, so I do not know whether you're referring to IMAGERIES)
The singular variation of the word,
imagery, would be correct in that statement.
Though weirdly enough, imageries is a real world according to Dictionary.com.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/imageries
@tsarstepan,
Tsars: Though weirdly enough, imageries is a real world[sic] according to Dictionary.com.
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So it is!
If native speakers agree with that Random House dictionary; when can we use the plural form IMAGERIES? In poems? In psychology?
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:In poetry, if the language produces some images in your brain, could they be called IMAGERY/IMAGERIES?
Why use a different word, when you already call them images?
Imagery is the name given to the methods and techniques a poet or other artist uses to produce ideas in your mind when you read or recite or hear the poem, novel, play, tune etc. Shelly's imagery. The imagery in Ode to The West Wind. The word could be used in the plural in that context.
@contrex,
contrex wrote:The word could be used in the plural in that context.
I do not think it should; the word 'imagery' is a non-countable noun, like power or beauty.