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The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents Nelson's multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry. [1] [2] It was written between 2003 and 2006. [3] [4] The book is a philosophical and personal meditation on the color blue, lost love, grief and existential solitude.
Color is a 1925 book of poems by Countee Cullen and it's his first published book. The book was published by Harper & brothers, while Cullen was 22 years of age and had just graduated from New York University. Prior to its release, Cullen was viewed as a new up-and-coming poet. Color explores themes of race and lost heritage. His poems range ...
Letters From the Floating World: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984) Letters From an Observatory: New and Selected Poems 1973–1998 (Karma Dog Editions, 1998) Vixen, with drawings by Connie Fox (Pushcart Press, 2007) Children's and Young Adult Books. The Blue Horse, and Other Night Poems (New York: Houghton Mifflin ...
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Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
Later linguistic research indicates that the Greek language probably did not have a word for the color blue at that time. [3] Color names often developed individually, beginning with black and white, and then red, and only much later adding the color blue, probably when the pigment could be manufactured reliably.
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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.