Imagery is as indispensable to an exciting poem as action and emotion are to an exciting life." Commentplease give some examples.

Regarding imagery as exciting, a poem by Carl Sandburg
entitled "Jazz Fantasia" comes to mind.  Here is the third stanza of this
poem:

Moan
like an autumn wind high in the lonesome treetops,

moan
soft like you wanted somebody terrible, cry like a

racing
car slipping away from a motorcycle cop,

bang-bang! you
jazzmen, bang altogether drums, traps,

banjoes, horns, tin
cans--make two people fight on the

top of a stairway and
scratch each other's eyes in a

clinch[embrace] tumbling
down the stairs.

This stanza
that contains auditory and visual imagery is certainly replete with images that excite
the senses.  And, it underlines the meaning of the quotation that here it is
indispensable in this poem to the description of the jazz players, whose rendition is
exciting.

However, there are other poems that employ
imagery for various reasons other than to be exciting to the reader. The imagery may
employ visual imagery in order to depict the grave, as Emily Dickinson does in "Because
I could not stop for Death." Nevertheless, while not being
exciting, the imagery can still excite the senses.  That is, the imagery stimulates, or
arouses the senses towards sorrow, empathy, etc.