A Water Color by Bliss Carman (1912)
The poem explores the theme of time and its fleeting nature. The speaker reflects on how quickly it passes, and how easily it can slip away without notice. The use of watercolor imagery emphasizes the fluidity of time and the way it can blend together into a single, indistinct image. The poem concludes with the lines "Time is but a water-color / Drawn on the page of life."
By Bliss Carman · First published 1912 · Genre: Poetry, Nature · 453 words
First lines
There's a picture in my room Lightens many an hour of gloom, --
Cheers me under fortune's frown And the drudgery of town.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Date: 1912 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Nature
- Length: 453 words
- Structure: 1 section, 29 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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Genres
- Poetry — This is a collection of short lyric and nature-themed poems by Bliss Carman, which falls into the Poetry genre.
- Nature — Many of the poems in this collection explore themes of nature and the beauty of the natural world.
Tags
poetry · watercolor · nature · imagery · symbolism · emotions · inspiration · beauty · melancholy · longing · memory · time