Question

The first line of the poem contains the phrase “green is gold,” which has the structure of a metaphor. This metaphor links two different colors. What is the symbolic meaning of the colors green and gold? What does this metaphor say?

The Poem:
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Answer 1

saying mother nature is rich in the color green,as in she is everywhere.