Did you forget to say that this question is about the poem "The wife’s lament" .
Answer:
The use of imagery allows the reader to feel the speaker's feelings about events that occurred chronologically.
Explanation:
Imagery is a figure of speech that seeks to highlight sensations within the text, stimulating the perceptions of the reader's five senses. In the poem "The wife’s lament" we gave an example of this when the speaker begins to narrate situations that happen in her life chronologically and how it affected her feelings and sensations.
Changes in feelings and sensations are established providing a notion of the passage of time, as situations happen.