Beauty Dies In Robert Frost's Poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay

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

To begin with, the use of color in both the poem and the novel has a deeper meaning than just what colors turn into other colors. In the poem, the colors are more than just the different color cycle plants go through. The changing of colors during season changing also means the passing of life and how everyone's growing up through the different stages of winter, spring, summer, and autumn. In autumn one is a baby, in the winter one is six or seven in the spring one is twelve or thirteen, in the summer one is seventeen or eighteen, and by the fall comes around one is now an adult ready to live on their own. For example, “Nature's first green is gold” (Frost 1); When one is

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.

To begin, the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” has different imagery than the poem “ The Beauty of Fall.” In one point in Frost’s poem, he uses an actual event that occurred in life to help readers fully understand his poem. In the text it states, “Then leaf subsides to leaf./ So Eden sank to grief”(Frost 5-6). The line is reminding readers about a biblical story about Adam and Eve. Eve was a girl who ate the forbidden apple and was banned from living in the Garden of Eden. On the other hand, “The Beauty of Fall” by Copper, Wovna, and Wovna just uses imagery of nature. The poem states, “Acorns on the ground,/ October was red and brown”(Cooper, Wovna, and Wovna 3-4). In the poem, it focuses on how nature changes throughout the season of fall. It starts with the month of October, which talks about the

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

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.

Best of all you can picture each line as if you are walking through a time zone. The first line of this poem leads the reader to only think of nature. I immediately took a deep breath and began to focus on each line. The first green of spring is the “her hardest hue to hold” he writes, like a willow that is gold then turns to a green leaf as the seasons change.

However, the meaning of gold in Frost's poem does not mean literal gold. It is a metaphor for the goodness and values of people.

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.

(Hinton 77) The main theme of the poem is about the valuableness of being pure, good, and youthful is corrupted by change. When Frost refers to gold as the hardest color to hold onto, he is talking about how the perfection in being young, innocent, and pure is unattainable, things will always change. The poem relates to both Johnny, and Ponyboy in The Outsiders greatly. When the boys see the gold mist at sunrise,

Furthermore, God promised in Genesis 9:15 that "never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life." It seems that Frost portrays nature as having its own plan, as he writes with nature in the active voice. Also, why does Frost speak of this in the past tense? Perhaps Frost was thinking back to the Great Flood and painting a picture of someone by the shore before the waters started to rise. Thus, the "age" Frost writes about could be interpreted as the pre-Noah days on earth.

Unfortunately, the beauty of Eden is only temporary since time takes hold because of the environment and above all the sun. The sun is hot as the day goes on causing the flowers to wilt and to lose their natural pigment. In actual life, we start our day full of energy later when the day ends we lose that energy due to stress by our daily priority from work and family. The reference to the Garden of Eden is the climax of this poem referring to the day comes to an end to such a beautiful day in this Garden and another day dawns. In life, the good things that come each day actually never last forever. In the final line which is also the title “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is meaning nothing actually stays the same, perhaps its Frost’s way of telling that our lives never stay the same because the changes of life and time remain an ongoing thing that occurs when we are alive that we should appreciate the “Gold” referring to all things of life both towards the haves and the not because they all cease. To all of us, in general, the gold is our family and friends because these are the peoples’ that last forever in our memories but in life, they will cease at some point that we take them for granted that we should appreciate. Think of a family member like a mother, father, or even someone close to you who passed away. It’s

This is significant because it emphasizes the melancholy and mournfulness that he depicts with imagery in the first stanza. Later on in the second stanza, he author describes the tree the narrator would have planted as a “green sapling rising among the twisted apple boughs”. The author uses visual color imagery of the color green to describe the sapling in order to emphasize just how young the newborn was when he died. Later on in the poem, the narrator speaks of himself and his brothers kneeling in front of the newly plated tree. The fact that they are kneeling represents respect for the deceased. When the narrator mentions that the weather is cold it is a reference back to the first stanza when he says “of an old year coming to an end”. Later on in the third stanza the author writes “all that remains above earth of a first born son” which means that the deceased child has been buried. They also compare the child to the size of “a few stray atoms” to emphasize that he was an infant. All of these symbols and comparisons to are significant because they are tied to the central assertion of remembrance and honoring of the dead with the family and rebirth.

The first line of stanza four “Or rather-- He passed Us—“ (l. 13) demonstrates that the speaker is uncertain about her existence in the world. Now she feels that her life symbolized by the sun is passing by. She becomes chilled by the “dews” (l. 14). Lines three and four in this stanza illustrate the reason for her coldness. The speaker is attired in a light “Gown” (l. 15) and cape or “Tippet” made of “Tulle” (l. 16), which is a kind of thin, transparent, open meterial. When people die,

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.