This poem seems to just write down what a person sees from a painting. Describing in detail all the aspects of a picture and the color yellow and how the picture seems to show the movement of yellow in the picture. Descriptions like “Big barges full of yellow hay/ Are moored against the shadowy wharf, / And, like a yellow silken scarf, / The thick fog hangs along the quay” (831). The color yellow is described nearly all of the picture till it fades into the river and turns into the color green.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Symphony in Yellow
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Joe,
ReplyDeleteVery sketchy and undeveloped post, due o doubt to the deadline. You don't demonstrate much thought on or insights into Wilde's poem here.
Wilde was an enthusiastic aestheticism, and that movement chose yellow as its symbolic color. Here, Wilde seems to, as he practically uses yellow in every line, to be declaring himself as an aesthetic even more.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about this piece as well and how the movement is very evident with each line but I looked at the movement associated with the color to have overcome the constraints of the picture.
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