In "Colors" Yevgeny Yevtushenko uses the speaker, lots of imagery, and some metaphoric phrases. Each element is specially used to enhance his poem to tell a vivid story about a saddened individual. An individual with feelings. The poem's main purpose seems to reach out and grasp the audience's attention, so a possible connection can be made.
             In the first few lines of "Colors," Yevtushenko refers to "Your face appeared over my crumpled life.." as though a spot of sunshine has arrived. This metaphoric phrase pretty much means that the speaker's life was like crap, and then once this 'crush' shows up, his life is starting to take a huge one-eighty. Another phrase in the last few lines, "I am conscious that these minutes are short and that the colors in my eyes will vanish when your face sets." exemplifies the fact that all crushes don't last forever, and we must move on. Using metaphoric phrases helps Yevtushenko get his point across in a more literary manner making it easier for us, the audience to picture and identify with the ideal notion of the poem.
             There's a lot of imagery showcased throughout the course of "Colors" perhaps much to Yevtushenko's delight. In line 5, he starts, "Then its particular light on woods, on rivers, on the sea," really means that only this one person can bring the speaker that much of an impact. Only this one person can influence his life more than anything else in the world. He also uses imagery words such as "sunshine," and "tears" to further induce the poetic tempo being displayed. In this case the transition from happy to sad.
             When the audience thinks of Yevtushenko's "Colors" a downpour of drama hits the scene. How can one individual be so happy from just another individual? And yet in the end, things don't seem to work out, and our main man, is left em
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