Analysis Of Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost

Robert Frost has a fine talent for putting words into poetry. Words which are normally simplistic spur to life when he combines them into a whimsical poetic masterpiece. His 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' poem is no exception. Although short, it drives home a deep point and meaning. Life is such a fragile thing and most of it is taken for granted. The finest, most precious time in life generally passes in what could be the blink of an eye. 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' shows just this. Even in such a small poem he describes what would seem an eternity or an entire lifetime in eight simple lines. Change is eminent and will happen to all living things. This is the main point of the poem and

Even though there isn't consistent repetition through the poem, he does repeat gold many times, comparing it to life.

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

The poem, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, by Robert Frost is an important part of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Explain how the poem relates to the key events in the novel.

In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, she includes the poem called, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” many times inside of the book. The more you comprehend the poem, the more you can relate it to the book. At the first sight of the quote, you probably did not have any idea why Hinton would include this quote; eventually you understand the true moral to the story and how it relates to The Outsiders itself and the characters that the novel incorporates.

This poem is a narrative about how nothing gold can stay. It is telling about anything perfect and beautiful and how they end up not staying. For example, when a baby is born and a mother gets to see her child for the first time, that is gold. Once it grows up it will not be innocent and perfect.

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost is a poem filled with imagery about nature. He makes us see and even feel the beginning of a new spring day with his very first line “Nature’s first green is gold.” The golden hues that are cast in the mornings light on the trees and filter through the leaves, lets us see the beauty and calmness that is the serenity and purity of the sunrise. This glorious golden hue does not last very long, as shown by the line, “Her hardest hue to hold.” He is showing us that as the sun continues to rise, the light becomes harsher in its brightness and the subtlety of colors become fleeting in their beauty.

“Sunshine seemed like gold,” (line 4) and “Whole damn world’s turned cold,” (line 5). The poet

Another example is in the second stanza last line “Nothing Gold can stay” is illustration is his death which took a toll on the gang but mostly on ponyboy which gave an example that johnny was “Gold” considering that ponyboys most important thing in the world was johnny. This is why johnny's character in the book was so important to the poems use in the

In the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" the word "gold" is repeated. "Natures first green is gold" gold meaning precious, beautiful, or valuable. As well as the last line.... "Nothing gold can stay" In the context of the shorter, published version the meaning from the first line would remain the same but in his origional version we see the meaning of the word "gold" in his

In the poem, it said Nature’s “early leaf is a flower” but it only lasts for “an hour”(page 67). What that part of the poem shows is that the early leaf; the flower, is the gold but it does not last forever instead it lasts for only an hour. This poem reflects in a gang member from the greasers, Dallas Winston, whose innocence is lost, meaning he is no longer pure and he is corrupted by the real world. Dallas’s innocence is lost because he steals, jumps kids, and he has been arrested since he was ten.

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The poem has no rhyme scheme or particular rhythm; this makes the descriptions stick out more to the reader, while having a varied sound when it is written

The poem begins with two lines which are repeated throughout the poem which convey what the narrator is thinking, they represent the voice in

In Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold can Stay, the theme is also about death like it also is in Out Out—, as well. Yet, this poem emphasizes more about the transience of life rather than the suddenness of life ending. “Nothing Gold can Stay” is about the appreciation for the golden days while the cycle of life continues and death becomes of each and every one of us.