Figurative language is used when a piece of writing or speech departs from its literal meaning in order to obtain a different meaning or a special effect. A poem can "unfold" its true meaning through images, imagery (a pattern of images), symbols and symbolism, and metaphor. The great poet, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), mastered the craft of figurative language. Hardy's two poems, The Drummer Lodge and The Voice, are two examples of how a poet or …showed first 75 words of 1132 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1132 total…sensible. Meaning, there is no congestion of thoughts because of word overcrowding or inconsistencies in the body of the poems. Instead, every misspelling and foreign word does what is was meant to do. The language Hardy sets for the reader to grasp implies a lot of the significant and valuable information in each of these poems. Therefore, the poems set what they were meant to do, get the poet's meaning across in an artistic format