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Symbolism In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an Arthurian medieval romance. The color green in Christian arts praises the season of epiphany. Its associates with nature, hope, bounty and fertility. In this poem I found that the color green mainly represents nature and fertility. Nature is first represented in this poem as a force that can’t be reckon with, such as the unexpected encounter of the Green knight. We first see the Mysterious Green Knight in King Arthur’s court, fully green from head to toe. His hair and complexion is green, which immediately tells us that this knight isn’t an ordinary knight. “Yet he wore no hauberk either , no armored apparel or plate was apparent, and he swung no sword nor sported any shield, but held in one hand a sprig
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