Poetry is many things to many people, but it can be characteristically described as a reluctance to be defined, pinned down, or labeled. The poet uses words to create art instead of using the traditionally clichéd examples of art. In poetry, the canvas that the poet uses is the reader himself. Poets go beyond writers and consider the emotive qualities of words, their values, and even spacing on the page to create emotional resonance. in the reader. Poetry is an evocative art form capable of inspiring strong emotions in the reader such as happiness and anger while still maintaining the ability to surprise a reader. This essay focuses on poetry as a way of “showing, not telling,” what we say. The emotional response that poets can create through their use of language is how it affects the reader as well as the images that a poet creates in a person's mind through their use of language. Poets are able to create a vivid image in a reader's mind through their use. language and, through these images, elicit an intense emotional response from the reader to help further captivate the reader in what the poet is trying to reveal to the reader. This can be seen through Wallace Stevenson's poem "Ten O'clock Disillusionment" where the use of imagery is used to further define certain aspects of the poem. Throughout the poem, five different colors are used and appear in lines two through five. There is a sense of defeat expressed through the color white, with the lack of color perhaps evoking a feeling of regret or a sense of apathy in the reader. It can arouse the feeling of ghosts passing through the house with a sense of monotony of "None is green" and emphasize the unanimity of ghosts with vivid green meaning. They have lost their vitality...... middle of paper ......is underlined through the lines "I stop breathing". The poem expresses the resentment the poet feels towards the way society seems to have stopped caring and not noticing what is happening around it. This is expressed by the speaker being unaware of his death until he stops and takes an interest in the larger world around him. Poets have an uncanny ability to express different thoughts and expressions as well as create images in a reader's head using only words, thoughts and their meanings. The poet does not need to describe what is happening, but rather uses thoughts and opinions to express his writing in a way that the reader understands and to evoke a response in the reader that could not be experienced otherwise. This expresses a poet's thoughts and opinions while allowing the reader to draw their own conclusion about the meaning of the poem..