Question

2. What is the primary imagery in “The Snow-Storm” by Ralph Waldo Emerson? How does that imagery help convey the theme of the poem?

Answer 1

The primary imagery is about the weather change.

Step-by-step explanation:

It's clear through out the lines of the poem that the author was trying to get a vivid image the the current weather and how it was changing into the readers mind.

Answer 2

The primary imagery in Emerson's poem is clearly seen in the beginning with these lines:

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.

The imagery stimulates the senses that the weather is changing and that the looming snow-storm is about to begin. It generally describes how the said weather is about to take place by giving the reader a clear picture how the environment transitions.