This characterisation of blue also contributes to one of my favourite themes in the book: the inherent beauty and complexity of nature, regardless of human observation or intervention. This change / development the character undergoes is also similar to Nelson’s own journey / mental process after losing a relationship important to her. Over the course of the book, the colour is characterized as anger, loss / grief, and depression later, it is painted out to be spirituality, love, enlightenment and darkness, neutrality, universality and independence. One of the things that made the book especially memorable was the way in which Nelson makes a reader fall in love with the color blue, by characterizing it and giving it not only a backstory and its own experience / relationship with other characters in the story, but by giving it a three-dimensional personality. Often referred to as prose poetry or a lyrical essay, Bluets utilises a mixture of narrative styles to document Nelson’s relationship with the colour blue and serves as an honest and powerful narration of her experience with grief, healing, desire and self-discovery. Bluets, by Maggie Nelson, is a collection of reflections and observations on the color blue.

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