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Literary notes about green (AI summary)

Green serves as both a vivid descriptor and a rich symbol across diverse literary works. In some narratives, it paints immersive images of nature and settings—a long bag of green silk unfolds exotic landscapes ([1]), lush lawns and inviting doors of green evoke secret garden realms ([2], [3]), while rolling fields and forest clearings imbue scenes with life and renewal ([4], [5]). In other texts, the word carries metaphorical heft; it denotes inexperience or youthful naiveté as in the portrayal of a “green girl” ([6]), or symbolizes hope and new beginnings, as seen in passages where fresh green shoots and the tender blast of spring suggest transformation ([7]). Whether highlighting the charm of a cherished home ([8], [9]) or deepening the mystery in epic quests such as the journey to the Green Chapel ([10]), green remains a versatile and evocative element, enriching literature with its layered resonance.
  1. It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long.
    — from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  2. She wore a green brocade dress and held a green parrot on her finger.
    — from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  3. She went toward the wall and found that there was a green door in the ivy, and that it stood open.
    — from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  4. Dinah's family lived in a small farmhouse, up a green lane, close by a meadow with some fine shady trees; there were two cows feeding in it.
    — from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  5. It was a green spot, on a hill, carpeted with soft turf.
    — from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  6. I.83 Green girl, Unsifted ] i.e. , inexperienced girl.
    — from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
  7. Every year this tree sends forth fresh green shoots.
    — from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen
  8. That night a thoroughly happy, completely tired-out Anne returned to Green Gables in a state of beatification impossible to describe.
    — from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  9. When the calm night came softly down over Green Gables the old house was hushed and tranquil.
    — from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  10. The last canto brings our knight to the Green Chapel, after he is repeatedly warned to turn back in the face of certain death.
    — from English Literature by William J. Long

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