Finnegans Wake

How does James Joyce use imagery in Finnegans Wake?

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Examples of Imagery:

"Shize? I should shee! Macool, Macool, orra whyi did ye diie? of a trying thirstay mournfn? Sobs they sighed at Fillagain's chrissormiss wake, all the hoolivans of the nation, prostrated in their consternation and their duodisimally profusive plethora of ululation..."

"Sweet bad luck on the waves washed to our island / The hooker of that hammerfast viking / And Gall's curse on the day when Eblana bay / Saw his black and tan man-o-war..."

"I shall shiver for my purity while they will weepbig for your sins...."

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Finnegans Wake