The Colours the Words Cast: Colour Terms in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas

This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a primarily linguistic and stylistic — rather than literary — approach. Although critical studies of the poetry of Dylan Thomas abound, systematic and detailed linguistic studies of his poems are relatively rare. The authors’ main aim is to investigate in detail the use of colour terms, and in particular to link this to the associations between colours and their connotative symbolic meanings, which form the b...