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Literary analysis:

In many literary passages the term "sunset" transcends its role as a marker of time, emerging instead as a palette of evocative hues and moods. Writers refer directly to “sunset colors” to capture an array of warm, golden, and fiery red tones, as seen in expressions like “the sunset colors” ([1],[2]), and describe scenes “dipped in the richest gold of sunset” ([3]) or illuminated by the “red sunset light” ([4]). Such imagery extends to vivid comparisons where a figure’s face is likened to “the color of a flaming sunset” ([5]) and landscapes are “tinted by the rosy light of the sunset” ([6]), conjuring a visual blend that is both transient and mesmerizing. Even poetic metaphors such as “flowers of sunset” ([7]) encapsulate how the hues of a sunset serve as a source of inspiration and emotional depth in literature.

"But the sunset colors, sir?"
— from The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The sunset colors of the sky were reflected in its waters.
— from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
"It has surely been dipped in the richest gold of sunset.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Her armored body glinted cool and metallic in the red sunset light, and her great wings had a suggestive shining of dull fire about them.
— from Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
Even as Dave reached back to lend a hand Freddy wiggled himself around and came upright, eyes popping and his face the color of a flaming sunset.
— from Dave Dawson on Convoy Patrol by Robert Sidney Bowen
Sometimes, too, the snow seems to be tinted by the rosy light of the sunset.
— from Text books of art education, v. 4 of 7. Book IV, Fourth Year by Bonnie E. Snow
On the moat slept shadows, mixed with flowers of sunset, tossed from pinnacle and gable.
— from New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds

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