Question

In Claude McKay's poem Tropics of New York, what is first used to provide the poem's initial imagery?

Answer 1

In Claude McKay's poem Tropics of New York, the first thing used to provide the poem's initial imagery is d. fruit. Imagery is visually descriptive language that you can observe in literature. In order to recognize it in this poem, it is just enough to read the first stanza:
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root,      Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit,      Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs,
As you can see, there is a vivid imagery that is employed by describing fruits.