Color by Dorothea Mackellar

By King Meera -
The speaker recalls with adoration <adulation?> the lovely things she has watched that have unwittingly seeped her soul in color with every passing day.

Stanza 2:
  • saffron sunset clouds
  • larkspur (meaning) mountains*
  • fenceless miles of plain* (fields, prairies)
  • golden-green hillsides*, shining unearthly after rain
Stanza 3:
  • nights of blue and pearl
  • simile - long smooth beaches yellow as sunburnt wheat
  • others - line of foam that creams and hisses, enticing weary feet (transferred epithet)
Stanza 4:
  • emeralds
  • sunset-hearted opals
  • Asian marble veined with scarlet flame
  • cool green jade
  • misty and azure-stained moonstones
Stanza 5:
  • almond trees in bloom
  • oleanders*
  • wide purple sea of plain-land (meaning field) gorgeous with a lovely poison - the evil Darling pea*
She calls on these images to help her dream when she is tired, like how in stanza 6, lemon, pink, or faintest, coolest lilac dawn-lit skies float on her soothed eyes.

No night is too black and no morn too drear for the Colors of the World to shine through, most tender, pure and clear.

The speaker thanks God for the bounteous beauties of Nature; those who seek it shall find the gift of color. Because they have steeped her soul in color, she can recall these colors even if she were stuck blind.

Themes:
  • joy
  • gratitude to God
  • Romanticism
Colour
  1. Bring out similes and metaphors
  2. How does color affect one's life?
  3. Significance of color in the narrator's life. How does it permeate her life and soul?
  4. What role does memory and recollection play in the lines of this poem?
  5. How does the author portray her love for the country through this poem?

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