Analysis Of Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost

Both “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” are great reads. They have their differences, but they have similarity’s as well. Having the common themes, while staying unique is impressive. The shortness of good things, stressed in the first poem. As well as the argument of how the world will end. These poems by Robert Frost make you think, that is what makes them so memorable.

     Frost?s poem delves deeper into the being and essence of life with his second set of lines. The first line states, ?Her early leaf?s a flower.? After the budding and sprouting, which is the birth of nature, is growth into a flower. This is the moment where noon turns to evening, where childhood turns into maturity, and where spring turns into summer. At this very moment is the ripe and prime age of things. The young flower stands straight up and basks in the sun, the now mature teenager runs playfully in the light, and the day and sunlight peak before descending ever so quickly into dusk. The second line of the second set states, ?But only so an hour,? which makes clear that yet again time is passing by and that a beginning will inevitably have an end.

This poem is typical of the poet’s style because Frost writes a lot about human nature and compares people to nature itself. He judges people and society as a whole. He also uses a lot of literary devices in his poems like metaphors. Frost describes nature in beautiful ways in his poems and “Fire and Ice” is just like the rest of them. It isn’t a departure of common themes.

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.

Every one of Robert Frost’s poems connects to nature. Frost ties in flowers, trees, leaves, nature paths, and many more features of nature to make readers intrigue to read the poems. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost uses flowers and leaves to help readers better understand the poem. “The Beauty of Fall” by Lizzy Cooper, Hannah Wovna, and Mikaela Wovna uses different imagery like apple trees, pumpkins, and hilltops to draw the reader’s’ attentions to the theme. The poems, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost and “The Beauty of Fall" by Lizzy Cooper, Hannah Wovna, and Mikaela Wovna has different imagery and literary devices, but both poems share the same overall meaning.

Eden is characterized as mother nature. The allusion contributes to our understanding of Frost’s poem because nothing lasts forever, just like how the goodness of the Garden of Eden did not. Full of goodness, sin takes over goodness. The gold represents good and the green represents evil. At first humans are full of goodness, then eventually you are introduced to sin and is hard to maintain goodness goodness of humans, just like how Frost states, “Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold” (Line 1-2). In lines 3-4, Frost conveys a message about when God forgave Adam and Eve, nothing changed to the broken land of Eden and could not be full of goodness again. When Frost says “So Eden sank to grief” he refers to the fall of Adam and

“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.

The title of Robert Frosts poem was not obvious as to the meaning. In the shorter, eightlined version the poem appears to be about how good things dont last forever, but in the much longer poem we see his fear of the world ending. The title "Nothing Gold Can Stay" would not seem relevent without having read the poem.

The color green connotes rebirth and renewal. This gives the appearance of a setting that takes place during early spring when there are gold buds on the flowers. Frost could also be talking about the morning, when the sun rises and makes everything a bit golder than normal, all bathed in the dawn light. Even though the golden color is so great, the speaker goes on to say in the second line that gold is the hardest hue, or color, for nature to hold. The first color humans see in spring does not stick around very long. This line is an example of alliteration. All the H sounds makes the reader read the line slower to really understand the meaning. Frost uses a rhymed couplet here, where gold rhymes with hold. Both lines, however, have the same amount of syllables and follow the same meter which is a form of iambic

Frost also uses the trees in this poem to represent a way to get away from the cares and trials of life on Earth. He talks of getting away and coming back to start over as if climbing “towards heaven”. He desires to be free from it all, but then he says that he is afraid that the fates might misunderstand and take him away to never return. This is like most of us today. We want to go to Heaven, but we don’t want to die to get there.

The world has several great poets and numerous mind-blowing works, each with its own way of portraying its own message using symbolism to represent lessons of everyday life. Jane Flanders wrote the poem named “Cloud Painter” she shows the world from an artistic way, using a painter and his canvas to help the reader picture the true meaning behind the words and images created. Robert Frost takes on the same idea, but uses a less complex example so that it makes his work easy to understand while not revealing the actual meaning of the poem. Frost and Flanders are just two of the many poets that use nature as a way of explaining the very lessons in life. Each poet has a different way of presenting similar images but from a different perspective. Poems are short stories that have a meaning behind them without revealing them in obvious ways. Although some are confusing and may use a different style there are a few that present the same message even if they are written by a different poet. “Cloud Painter” written by Jane Flanders uses the clouds and other subjects of nature. Such as trees and the hills. to help the reader picture the true meaning behind her poem. Robert Frost's poem by the name of “Nothing Gold Can Stay” also takes the nature route to convey the point of his poems words and their Each has a unique way of creating an idea that most can relate to emotionally and physically.

Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly

Frost also uses the form of the poem to establish himself as a nature poet. He encloses the subject of nature inside the traditional sonnet form, connecting himself to one of the foremost nature poets, Wordsworth. While he uses the same form and subject as Wordsworth, he creates his own rhyme scheme, breaking from the Petrarchan form used by Wordsworth and showing that the material inside the casing of this sonnet is not a traditional nature poem.

“The Road Not Taken” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” are just two of many very famous poems, written by none other than Robert Frost. Robert Frost is a poet that is well known for his poetic contributions to nature, as well as his award winning poems. His poetic ability and knowledge make him an extraordinary author. His past; including schooling, family, and the era in which he wrote influenced nearly all of his poems in some way. This very famous poet contributed to the modernism era, had a family and an interesting life story, and a unique poetic style as well.

Frost uses nature as an image that he wants us to see or a metaphor that he wants us to relate to on a psychological level. To say that Frost is a nature poet is inaccurate.