Life would have been terribly drab if colours did not exist. I cannot imagine a world where there was a total absence of colour. It is enough for us to look at the dawn after the darkness of night to know the difference. Landscapes and seascapes take life from the different shades of greens and blues, the colours of the birds’ feathers, the different colours of fish, and the multicoloured flowers.
We only realise what colour means in our life on a grey wintry day, when the sun does not shine and when all around us is cold. Here we stop to think what the moon must look like in all its monotony of grey or how tiring it would be to live on Mars with its constant red colour. Psychologists believe that in northern countries there is a large number of people who commit suicide simply because there is an absence of light and colour for such a long time, because of the cold dark winters. People are asked to paint their homes in “happy” colours
Because of all the colours we see around us, we realise how we are blessed and how sad it must be for those people who are colour blind or completely blind. Bearing this is mind, we must do our best not to contaminate the seas with crude oil and chemicals. We must take care of our forests, battle against hunters who kill birds especially during the migrating seasons. We must protect wild life by letting others know what our children will be missing when a species becomes extinct.
Vermilion spotted, golden, green and blue
How different the cinema must have been when films were shot only in black and white! What a difference floodlights make at the theatre! Poetry is the art of using words to create pictures. Unlike painting which is visual, poetry; lights up the mind’s eye to give a spiritual fulfilment. Poems like the following lines in Keats’ “Lamia” demonstrate this art.
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