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shvetsov2005
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 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: blush |
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"IT was a glorious morning, late spring or early summer, as you care to take it, when the dainty sheen of grass and leaf is blushing to a deeper
green" (Jerom K. Jerom)
Can you explain the use of verb blush in here?
I thought it can mean only to become more red, but not green.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| No, I can't. |
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Philo Kevetch
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Shvetsov -
The author is using 'poetic license'....
normally, 'blush' is associated with the colo(u)r red -
blood causes the face/cheeks to turn a 'deeper' colo(u)r
so..'blushing' from a 'dainty sheen' to a 'deeper green'
is a way of describing the 'life blood' flowing through
the world of nature surrounding us.
Are you studying poetry/literature? Or....just for pleasure? Philo |
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