Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets
    Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets
    Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets
    Ebook89 pages1 hour

    Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets

    By Max Eastman

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets

    Read more from Max Eastman

    Related to Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Stories That Sing

      Mar 2, 2023

      Stories That Sing
      6 min read

    • Article

      Rudyard Kipling Loved Vermont. Then He Had To Leave It.

      Jul 15, 2019

      Christopher Benfey’s ‘If’ takes a closer look at the writer’s time in America – a key creative period when he wrote ‘The Jungle Book.’

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Devil’s Dictionary

      Jul 6, 2021

      Select entries from Ambrose Bierce’s lexicon of cynicism, bitterness, and humor, produced over a 30-year period beginning in 1881. APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence. BARD, n. A person who makes rhymes. The word is one of the

      4 min read

    • Article

      Global Literary Market

      Jan 6, 2022

      Black Lawrence Press is a US indie publishing contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The editorial team find their authors through annual contests and open reading periods. They seek ‘innovative, electrifying, and thoroughly intoxicat

      1 min read

    • Article

      Let It Go

      Mar 17, 2020

      Let It Go
      4 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Jan 1, 2022

      Maybe every choice is in some way false,like whether to wonder or worry,or feel alive or alone in Clevelandor Memphis or any standard double queentrying to unwrap a tiny hotel soap.There’s always another one waitingin the dish like a stale communion

      2 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jan 1, 2022

      I’ve seen enough films where a character nickshimself shaving or maybe has a bread knife slip and the thinrun of blood is supposed to stand for some violence,for something he did and is desperateto cover up, but the truth will out—I’ve seen enough th

      2 min read

    • Article

      TheTimeIsNow

      Oct 11, 2023

      The poems in Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining, published by Wave Books in October, portray the physical and psychological horrors that take place in the labyrinthine Overlook Hotel, the setting of the iconic Stephen King novel and Stanley Kubrick film ad

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Last Stop

      Oct 3, 2021

      The Last Stop
      1 min read

    • Article

      Reactions

      Dec 14, 2022

      Reactions
      1 min read

    • Article

      An Appreciation Of Julia De Burgos, “Farewell In Welfare Island”

      Jan 1, 2022

      It has to be from here,right this instance,my cry into the world. Life was somewhere forgottenand sought refuge in depths of tearsand sorrowsover this vast empire of solitudeand darkness. Where is the voice of freedom,freedom to laugh,to movewithout

      11 min read

    • Article

      Silvia Guerra

      Jun 9, 2020

      The dry, black branches of winter seen in flight run singing. Come here to drink translucent drops on fresh leaves. Come over here, and try to light that wick. If you descend from the summit, humming, perhaps I can see you, perhaps at the river’s cur

      1 min read

    • Article

      Horoscopes

      Jan 21, 2022

      Horoscopes
      5 min read

    • Article

      White Noise, White Elegies

      Jan 1, 2022

      It is 12:20 in New York a Fridaythree days after Bastille day, yesit is 1959 and I go get a shoeshinebecause I will get off the 4:19 in Easthamptonat 7:15 and then go straight to dinnerand I don’t know the people who will feed me So opens Frank O’Har

      21 min read

    • Article

      The Writing Wisdom of Derek Walcott

      Mar 20, 2017

      “The future happens,” says the philosopher in Derek Walcott’s stage retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, “No matter how much we scream.” Walcott died on Friday at the age of 87—and instead of screaming, I’m feeling grateful towards this great poet, playwrig

      7 min read

    • Article

      Does Poetry Have Street Cred?

      Sep 6, 2019

      Does Poetry Have Street Cred?
      10 min read

    • Article

      In The Middle Of Even This: Poetry

      Jan 1, 2020

      To be brought from the bright schoolyard into the house:to stand by her bed like an animal stunned in the pen:against the grid of the quilt, her hand seemsstitched to the cuff of its sleeve—although he wantsmost urgently the hand to stroke his head,a

      7 min read

    • Article

      On Punks

      Mar 1, 2022

      Until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest mass shooting by a single person in US history occurred in the middle of the night of June 12, 2016 in an Orlando nightclub, Pulse. 49 lives were lost and countless affected, including those of us read

      6 min read

    • Article

      Where Is Poetry Now?

      Aug 15, 2018

      Where Is Poetry Now?
      6 min read

    Reviews for Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets - Max Eastman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Colors of Life, by Max Eastman

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Colors of Life

      Poems and Songs and Sonnets

      Author: Max Eastman

      Release Date: May 7, 2011 [EBook #36051]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLORS OF LIFE ***

      Produced by David E. Brown, Bryan Ness and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

      COLORS OF LIFE

      NEW POETRY: FALL 1918

      COLORS OF LIFE

      POEMS AND SONGS AND SONNETS

      BY

      MAX EASTMAN

      NEW YORK    ALFRED A. KNOPF    MCMXVIII

      COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY

      ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      A PREFACE

      ABOUT AMERICAN POETRY

      It is impossible for me, feeling and watching the eternal tidal currents of liberty and individual life against tyranny and the type, which are clashing and rearing up their highest crimsoned waves at this hour, to publish without some word of deprecation a book of poems so personal for the most part, and reflecting my own too easy taste of freedom rather than my share in the world's struggle towards an age and universe of it. That struggle has always occupied my thoughts, and often my energies, and yet I have never identified myself with it or found my undivided being there. I have found that rather in individual experience and in those moments of energetic idleness when the life of universal nature seemed to come to its bloom of realization in my consciousness. Life is older than liberty. It is greater than revolution. It burns in both camps. And life is what I love. And though I love life for all men and women, and so inevitably stand in the ranks of revolution against the cruel system of these times, I loved it first for myself. Its essence—the essence of life—is variety and specific depth, and it can not be found in monotonous consecration to a general principle. Therefore I have feared and avoided this consecration, which earnest friends for some reason always expect me to exemplify, and my poetry has never entered, even so deeply as it might, into those tempests of social change that are coloring our thoughts today.

      Poetry that has life for its subject, and untempered reality, is rather expected to manifest that irregular flow and exuberance of material over structure with which Walt Whitman challenged the world. In America at least the freedom and poignant candor of strong art is associated with the tradition that he founded, and little is granted to that other tradition which finds its original in Edgar Allan Poe. There existed in Europe, however, a succession of poets whose eyes turned back in admiration to Poe, and they were the poets of reality and those who touched the mood of social revolt. And for my part I think there is a modern validity in the attitudes of both these poets, and a certain adjudication between them which a perfectly impersonal science might propose.

      Every one who reads this book will be familiar, I suppose, with Walt Whitman's ideal of an American poetry so free and strong and untrammelled of ornamentation that it should go out of the books it was published in and stand up with the hills and forests on the earth. The Poetry of the future, he said.

      CONTENTS

      AMERICAN IDEALS OF POETRY

      A PREFACE

      It is impossible for me, feeling and watching the eternal tidal currents of liberty and individual life against tyranny and the type, which are clashing and rearing up their highest crimsoned waves at this hour, to publish without some word of deprecation a book of poems so

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1