Imagery and Perceptions in "Filthy Landscape and "August"

The poems "Filthy Landscape" by Charles Simic and "August" by Sophie Cabot Black are both centered around the season summer, yet the images used to describe the season summer in each poem create very different perceptions of what summer is. This essay will discuss the use of images to evoke summer in "Filthy Landscape" and in "August." It will also explain how these poems' images create very different perceptions of a summer landscape. The images …showed first 75 words of 803 total…

…showed last 75 words of 803 total…is a lively, colorful, and vibrant poem. "August" is a bland and listless poem. "Filthy Landscape" is about summer in its best months and the imagery created by Simic captures the beauty of these months perfectly. "August" is the month that usually signifies an end to the type of summer landscape created in "Filthy Landscape" and the images of dying grass and leaves help show one that this is not the month that summer thrives.