Compare and Contrast the Portrayal of Imagination in “quality Street” and “dark Film”

Compare and contrast the portrayal of imagination in “Quality Street” and “Dark Film”.

The poems Dark Film and Quality Street are similar in which they both have imagination stimulated by an external source. They also both have imagination change nothing into something and the poems makes small things to piece together to create a whole grand image. Despite this, they do have some differences, for example, Quality Street imagination is stimulated by different external stimuli whereas the Dark film isn’t. Quality Street gives out strong emotions portrayed by imagination but Dark Film doesn’t. Not only this, Dark Film also implies imagination is always good but Quality Street states too much makes you lose yourself.

Firstly, both of the poems portray the start of imagination by an external stimulus. Dark Film portrays this by using items which has fallen into the film over the period it went on ‘general release’. These items are things you see every day but you don’t pay attention to such as an ‘eyelash’, which grows four-foot-long in the poem, or ‘hairspring’, which became big enough to function in a town hall clock seen in the dark image in the film. Through the use of the film and these items as an external stimulus, it allows the audience watching the film to see things which are normal gets turn into abnormal things. Farley does by using imagery and describing to us what is displayed on the film as the film audience watches it. Similarly, to this, in Quality Street the external stimulus is shown to be the wrappers and the scenery outside in which the writer is looking at. Throughout the poem, the writer uses the plastic wrapper to view the world in another way relative to the colour of the wrappers. The writer turns ‘themselves into a camera’ and sees the ‘dog crossing the square’ and the ‘bin-shed door’ differently from before as they are under the effect of the wrappers. Not only the wrappers are the external stimuli, the scenery is so too as the writer can use imagination to change to fit the writer’s imagination.