The color green in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight serves a variety of purposes: from binding its imagery to its action, describing its nature as an allegory, and increasing the distance of the Green Knight from the wintry world of the Arthurian court. The Gawain's poet diction choice for the poem's verdant hues also increases the variety of ways in which the poem can be read and interpreted. And, just as colors denote a change between seasons, so too does the meaning of the color green change throughout the poem, representing shifts and transformations in its characters.
