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Literary notes about pear (AI summary)

Literary references to "pear" as a color are rare and subtle, often evoking the soft, natural hues of ripeness and decay rather than offering bold, primary shades. In a few texts the pear’s muted greens, yellows, and rustic tomes emerge as symbols of change and impermanence. For instance, one writer uses the image of a bruised, rusty pear to evoke the wear of time and nature’s inevitable decline [1], while another contrasts the gentle glow of a sky behind pear-blossom with the tender, ephemeral quality of light that seems to mirror the fruit’s understated palette [2]. In such passages, the color “pear” is not named explicitly as a hue but is implied through the natural imagery of orchards and ripening fruit, lending an organic, transient quality to the descriptions.
  1. A muffled thud the pippin fell, And at our feet rolled dusty; A hornet clinging to its bell, The pear lay bruised and rusty.
    — from One Day & Another: A Lyrical Eclogue by Madison Julius Cawein
  2. Did you ever see anything like the colour of that sky behind the pear-blossom?' 'Did you like them?'
    — from Doctor Cupid: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

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