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Question: Can someone please help me find imagery in this poem!?

well in either one of these poems!.
I need to pick one with a ton of imagery so i can write my english paper on it!.
please and thank you!

At a Low Mass For Two Hot-Rodders

Sheeted in steel, embedded face to face,
They idle in a feelingless embrace,
The only ones at last who had the nerve
To crash head-on, not chicken out and swerve!.
Inseparable, in one closed car they roll
Down the stoned aisle and on out to a hole,
Wheeled by the losers; six now shorn of beard,
Black-jacketed and glum, who also steered
Toward absolute success with total pride,
But, inches from it, felt, and turned aside!.


OR

The Naked and the Nude
Robert Graves

For me, the naked and the nude
(By lexicographers construed
As synonyms that should express
The same deficiency of dress
Or shelter) stand as wide apart
As love from lies, or truth from art!.

Lovers without reproach will gaze
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will see
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess when
She mounts her lion among men!.

The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye!.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin!.

The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometime nude!




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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
i think the first poem has a lot more workable imagery, being a car crash and playing chicken on the road!. i like the consideration about the winners of the road are the loosers of the world!. i like how those that blink at death are supposedly the people who move on in this life!. those that face it, embrace it are the ones left behind!.!.!. which in a sense can be an abstract commentary on life!.

however i think the poem about the naked and the nude simple imagery has a lot more to be said, and you can structure a paper better around it for its!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.frank approach!. the imagery is of course the difference in perspective of the naked body!. the poet makes a serious mockery about the human body being pornographic or art when posed in its various states, and pointedly addresses what really is the difference!. shame!? or fame!? you can see a lot of different forms in this but its still the simple unchanging subject, the human body!. i think naked are the proud and shameless, the nude arrogant and offensive!.Www@QuestionHome@Com