Imagery of Art
In the section "Sympathy," Edmund Burke examines the first component through which people may be sincerely changed by one another. He not only delineates possible arts that satisfy his criteria but instead includes descriptions of how these arts affect the viewer; his images of the objects, the realities they represent, and the physical response of the observer to the stimulus shows the reader of his tract how his theoretical claim about passion is striking on the human level.
Imagery of Expansiveness
Burke shows the physicality of largeness in the section "Vastness." He does so to make concrete the space of an extent. His pieces of imagery include the change in size of animals, the nature of ramps and cliffs, and how humans follow imagination to obtain the state of astonishment which he presents further through imagery.
Imagery of Light
The section "Light" provides a full focus on light, which leads to visual imagery of color in addition to the basic depiction of light and details of how darkness affects our eyes after looking at the sun. He invokes the spectacular nature of light to subtly capture movement using this established imagery.
Imagery of Vegetables
Burke uses the section "Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables" to test his proposed explanation for the distinction between the Sublime and the Beautiful and his definition for both. He is drawn to study proportion, and here he looks at a basic component of human existence at the observational level. After presenting the description for proportion, Burke delineates qualities of vegetables using imagery of their scientifically-noticeable parts and more basic observation of the shapes of flowers, fruit, trees, and vegetables.
