Figurative language involves using “figures of speech,” which express ideas in ways that are not meant to be taken literally.

Not an official fan site of poet Robert Frost
Not an official fan site of poet Robert Frost
Imagery may be defined as the representation through language of sense experience. Poetry indirectly appeals to our senses through imagery. Imagery is more incidental to a poem than metaphors
Figurative language involves using “figures of speech,” which express ideas in ways that are not meant to be taken literally.
Frost’s quote, “I’d sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down,” applies to both form and meter.