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Authoress, in her article, presents semantic field of colours in the most important work of Czech romanticism entitled Máj written by Karel Hynek Mácha. She classifies names of colours expressed with use of nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs according to the following bands of the rainbow. Besides that, she also lists lexemes, which are expressing intensity of light’s saturation and effect of glitter. Authoress comes to the conclusion, that important place in the description of May’s adventure is taken by play of lights as well as capture of transitory light contrasts by Karel Hynek Mácha.