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 reader another view of everyday experiences such as Travel or Journeys, Work and the interactions with family to name a few. These everyday experiences are effected in a way, which changes the perspective of the reader if not for a second, then forever.

The first such example of travel is shown through out many of Gray's poems. Though it is most evident in North Coast Town and Journey: The North Coast. In the first poem, North Coast Town, Gray details the experiences of a hitchhiker travelling around the coast. As Gray is an imagist, the poem brings to life the travels of this hitchhiker, who by describing the area gives personal views on the changes seen. Though the important part comes from this, that when travelling in an area that is not known, people become more perceptive. Although the hitchhiker is a native of the

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.

Although, this is not the only poem again which talks of a change in the view of work, the poem Flames and Dangling Wires also shows to an extent the indirect view of people working at a dump. The poem uses the imagery of Hell as a comparison to this dump. Though towards the end of the poem, the speaker details the workers of the dump. Where he states "how could he avoid a hatred of men?" The speaker begins to look towards the workers of the dump, considering why they would work in such an area, surrounded by the "scavengers". Again Gray details another side of work. A new facet for the reader to consider. This question of why, allows the reader to look at the everyday experience of working, and analyse it, and even look at their own life differently, and think themselves lucky that they are not forced to work "as in Hell the Devils might pick about our souls".

area, the issue of change is raised as he himself, does not know the town any more, after the change. Gray uses the travels of this person, who has no identity except for that of a hitchhiker, to show how some people travel.

Secondly, Gray changes the prospective on the everyday experience of work for the reader. This is done by the shocking images and feelings shown in the poem Meatworks. This poem uses the experience of a worker, from his first day, to the repetition of life, which he goes through. Firstly, Gray uses vivid imagery to set the scene of the "meatworks". A place in which the slaughtering of animals is done. And Gray introduces the main character, a new worker at this factory. Gray has the worker remember his first day, on which he broke a machine, after a stick slipped from his hand, and was grinded in the machine instead of th

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