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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?

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Are you seriously reading that Robert frost poem? It means that in the time symbolized in the poem (i think it’s talking about spring?), anything green is almost as valuable as gold.
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