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Today’s program is about how colors may be used in poetry as essential structural motifs and as parts of organizing metaphoric and thematic literary frames. The program takes a look at the possible meanings of colors, using the field of color psychology to frame those considerations. I present my translations of poems by three Lithuanian poets, and then read two of my own poems, as examples of the ways in which colors may play varied poetic roles.
By openwindowsToday’s program is about how colors may be used in poetry as essential structural motifs and as parts of organizing metaphoric and thematic literary frames. The program takes a look at the possible meanings of colors, using the field of color psychology to frame those considerations. I present my translations of poems by three Lithuanian poets, and then read two of my own poems, as examples of the ways in which colors may play varied poetic roles.