Grass is the symbol for usefulness; it might represent native land, or, when pulled, surrender or conquest of a land or territory. However, the usefulness is often humble. Commonness, submission, lower caste of people, sign of defeat. Evanescence; quick to grow but may soon be gone.
Also love, taking life easy, as in Yeats and Blake. Under the grass is a term
commonly associated with death.
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