Reading Song of Solomon this week has really made me think about the details that we tend to miss in our everyday lives, specifically the color imagery made me think about the way we associate colors with emotions, scenery, and everyday objects. “And the very young children couldn’t make up their minds whether to watch the minions circled in blue on the roof or the bits of red flashing around on the ground,” (Morrison 5). The way Morrison was able to associate colors to make vivid imagery is a lot like the way we try to make our own life more vivid. What I found amazing is that the world around us is full of colors but we so often forget to remember them. So I tried writing a poem with the same imagery.
She felt the red pumping faster in her heart, as each breathe became shorter.
She felt the orange flames raging around her, each second bringing more warmth.
Her eyes saw the yellow spots rolling around in her head, keeping her questioning reality.
With each breath, the smell of the green world around her turned to the inhalation of smoke.
Every blue tear that left her eyes turned colorless as she watched the gray overtake her world.
The indigo walls around her dissipated, as the ash washed her hope away.
Searching for an escape, she looked up to see a now violet sky, calling her home.
But the gray was far too consuming for her to win.
As she opened her eyes one final time, the only visual she had was the rainbow above her.
Lesson #6: The world around us is full of imagery that we so often overlook.
I think the way she used imagery was amazing and inspires thinking in the reader. Color is also an big part of her symbolism. I like where you went with your own poem to show how there are so many colors surround us in everyday life. It shows how color is very important in how we associate feelings and objects.
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