Visual imagery is using descriptions to create a scene for the reader. An example of visual poetic imagery is the phrase "[t]o watch his woods fill up with snow" in the Robert Frost poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." With visual imagery, the writer provides a scene that the reader can picture.
Auditory imagery is using a description to convey sounds to the reader. The phrase "[t]the falcon cannot hear the falconer" in the poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats is an example of auditory imagery.
Olfactory imagery describes a scent to the reader. The phrase "[a] scent of ripeness from over a wall" in the Robert Frost poem "Unharvested" is an example of olfactory imagery.
Tactile imagery describes how something is perceived through the sense of touch, including warmth, cold, softness, hardness, dryness or wetness. An example is the description of Porphyria making "the cheerless grate / Blaze up, and all the cottage warm" in "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning.
Gustatory imagery refers to the description of how something tastes in a poem. For example, John Keats speaks of "hazel shells / With a sweet kernel" in a description of fruits and vegetables in his poem "To Autumn."
Organic imagery is a description of a physical sensation, such as hunger, thirst, pain or fatigue. An example is found in the lines, "My instep arch not only keeps the ache, / It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round" in Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking." These words convey to the reader the sensation of still being able to feel the ladder wrung on which he stood in his foot.
Kinesthetic imagery refers to movement or tension external to the speaker in the poem. In other words, it describes outside movement or tension rather than internal. A good example of this is found in "Porphyria's Lover": "The sullen wind was soon awake, / It tore the elm-tops down for spite, / And did its worst to vex the lake."