Imagery and Portrait in Majeed Amjad's Poetry

The purpose of imagery in poetry is to send the message of poet ina strong, vivid and in a very visual voice. The poet uses words tocreate images in our mind that helps to interpret poem in a way hesees it. He uses similes, metaphors and personifications to createmental picture through words that gives a strong message tounderstand the poet's message. To indicate the points which seemthe most vivid and important to reader, the writer allows thereader to flesh out their sketch into a portrait. In other words, youcan think of imagery as painting with words in order to fuel thereader's imagination. Majeed Amjad mellowed as a poet in the late34s. He is a painter, like Ustad Allah Bakhsh, involved in aestheticand classical landscape in his poetry. This involvement is not staticor superficial. This article reflects a brief introduction of imageryand Majeed Amjad's art of using images in his poetry