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  2. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the ...

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    The poems are choreographed to music that weaves together interconnected stories. The choreopoem is performed by a cast of seven nameless women only identified by the colors they are assigned. They are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple.

  3. Theory of Colours - Wikipedia

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    Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.. Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans.

  4. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]

  5. Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) - Wikipedia

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    John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...

  6. Rainbows in culture - Wikipedia

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    She and the Color Kids live in Rainbowland. In 1985 there was a film for the series, Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer. Rainbow Brite uses the rainbow to travel between Rainbowland and Earth. Her horse Starlite has a rainbow mane and tail. The 1988 film The Serpent and the Rainbow

  7. Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock - Wikipedia

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    The poem allows the reader to linger over the possibility of colors, strangeness and unusual dreams. Imagination that is absent from a mundane orderly life is represented by a dandified aesthete and an adventurous and exciting life by a drunken sailor dreaming of catching tigers in red weather. The poem's message is fairly simple.

  8. Voyelles - Wikipedia

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    A reading in French of Voyelles "Voyelles" or "Vowels" is a sonnet in alexandrines by Arthur Rimbaud, [1] written in 1871 but first published in 1883. Its theme is the different characters of the vowels, which it associates with those of colours.

  9. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    The poem does not have a deep, hidden, symbolic meaning. Rather, it is simply pleasurable to read, say, and hear. Critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for why the language is pleasurable, and how Byron achieved this effect. The lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for ...