LAllegro The Imagery
What imagery do you find memorable and why do you find it memorable? This poem has a lot of imagery and all sharing the common theme of joy and beauty. ... The most vibrant imagery that I encountered was the description of the morning. ... Yet more imagery of the dawn ‘rising’ is seen when Milton writes, ‘the hounds and horn / Cheerly rouse the slumb’ring morn’, personifying the sun, perhaps as a king, as hinted by saying ‘the great sun begins his state’ suggesting royalty in the ‘great’ness and ‘state’.