Literary notes about poppy (AI summary)
In literature the color “poppy” is frequently employed to evoke vibrant reds that suggest passion, vitality, and an almost incandescent beauty. Writers use comparisons such as “red as a field‐poppy” or liken flushed cheeks and burning lips to the vivid petals of a poppy to infuse their descriptions with emotional intensity and visual impact [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. At times, the color is depicted in metaphorical terms—conjuring images of “painted glass” that glows under sunlight or a solitary, withered poppy set against a contrasting backdrop—to emphasize both the brilliance and fleeting nature of beauty [6, 7, 8].
- In the centre of the apartment stood Ruth, her cheeks waving crimson, like a poppy field astir.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther - At this question all eyes are turned towards Miss Chandore, who blushes till she is as red as a poppy, but does not cast down her eyes.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau - I asked, waxing, I ween, as red as a field-poppy.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton - Against the whiteness of her skin her lips burned like poppy petals.
— from The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath - To the Lady Barbara, I say, to her daffodil hair, to her violet eyes, to her poppy lips, to her lily cheeks!
— from Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various - But the poppy is painted glass ; it never glows so brightly as when the sun shines through it.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin - Scarlet and blue flowers intermingle in the distance; in the foreground lies a single poppy, withered and dying.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. by Various - Then another eye lit up, as if a gas-lighter in the street had turned it on, and after that the apricot-and-poppy-coloured tabby appeared.
— from David Blaize and the Blue Door by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
