Description
Book Synopsis1. Prologue: aims of the study and structure of the book.- 2. Studying colour in poetry, with particular reference to the poems of Dylan Thomas.- 3. Corpus of poems and methodology.- 4. Accounts of symbolic associations of colours with other domains.- 5. Frequency data.- Part II: Chromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms.- 6. Green.- 7. Red, blue and yellow.- Part III: Achromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms.- 8. White.- 9. Black.- Part IV: The remaining colour terms.- 10. Secondary basic colour terms: brown and grey – but why not pink, purple or orange?- 11. Non-basic metonymic colour terms derived from the names of metals: gold(en) and silver.- 12. Summarising modification of basic colour terms and distribution of colour words among entity types.- 13. The use of more than one colour word in a poem.- 14. Epilogue: a kaleidoscope of colour.
