Marge Piercy Percey Shelly Once Term Paper

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Every day I will give you a color, like a new flower in a bud vase on your desk. Every day will paint you, as women color each other with henna on hands and on feet.

Yellow as a goat's wise and wicked eyes, yellow as a hill of daffodils, yellow as dandelions by the highway, yellow as butter and egg yolks, yellow as a school bus stopping you, yellow as a slicker in a downpour

Every poem, Piercy gives the readers a color, "like a new flower in a bud vase" (her metaphors), on your desk. Every day "she paints us" (word play), with yellows (repetition, sound), "the purple of ripe grapes" (alliteration). She is using her poetry to bring change, emotional, intellectual, perhaps social and political. This is her way to bring life, to change life as in "Rising in perilous hope":

What words can I say that will catch in your mind like burrs, chiggers that burrow?

If my touch could heal, I would lay my hands on your bent head and bellow prayers.

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If my words could change the weather or the government or the way the world twists and guts us, fast or slow, what could I do but what I do now?

I fit words together and say them; it is a given like the color of my eyes.

I hope it makes a small difference, as

I hope the drought will break and the morning come rising out of the ocean wearing a cloak of clean sweet mist and swirling terns.

In Colors Passing Through Us, as in her other poetry books, Piercy does catch in the mind like chiggers; she fits the words together and breaks the drought of boredom and ennui and brings a sweet mist of swirling "terms" of poetry about life......

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