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What does Frost mean by the line "Then leaf subsides to leaf?"

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Answer: “Then leaf subsides to leaf, / So Eden sank in grief” is the climax of the poem, to me. Frost is them saying that the leaf actually becomes a leaf rather than a beautiful flower. He also references Eden, so as to say that first green is Eden.

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