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Colors in the Poems of W. B. Yeats: Gold and Siver

Colors in poems are non-verbal communication. Colors in poetry have symbolism and color meanings that go beyond ink. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how Yeats chooses colors for his poems and how those colors are related to his poetic imagination. Yeats uses many colors in his poems in order to strengthen his poetic themes. The color that he uses most frequently in The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is gold. The color gold often appears with the color silver in his several poems. In Yeats's poems, the color gold symbolized the color of the sun, and the color silver the color of the moon. When Yeats attempts to establish an ideal world in his poems, he used such colors as gold and silver. For example, in "The Man who dreamed of Faeryland" Yeats uses the gold and silver imagery associated with the spiritual world to escape from this present world. To grasp the meaning of the various colors used in his poetry will help us understand his poems properly.