Robert Gray

Poetry essay, Robert Gray. Question: Poetry can help us think and feel in new ways about every day experiences. Show how four of Gray's poems offer a new prospective on everyday experiences. One of the major effects of poetry is to take the reader to another place. To have one look at an everyday situation, and see another face to it. This is done by the imagist, Robert Gray. Through his poem, he gives the …

…experiences of life. In conclusion, Gray has used the images in his poems, to directly change the view of the reader. Not a view on an opinion, but on the everyday experiences such as travel, work and family. These can directly be seen to be effective, due to the reader looking at the characters in the poems in a new light, but also extending this to the lives after the poem, where the reader lives.