Friendship And Peace In Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

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.

The concept of Nothing Gold Can Stay is consistently dismissed as untrue throughout the novel. The grim menacing of the poem is that a human begins young and joyful, but as one grows older, the pain and hardships presents themselves, and the person starts feeling miserable. After all, ‘nothing gold can stay’. The words ‘stay gold’ (page 181), words spoken by Johnny to Ponyboy on his deathbed, means to stay good. This directly opposes the poem’s meaning.. After Johnny and Dallas ‘Dally’ Winston had died, Ponyboy decides to write an essay in hope for the ‘hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better’ (page 217) to ‘stay gold’ (page 181) as Johnny had told him. The words ‘stay gold’ are repeated as a reminder that staying gold is possible. The meaning behind Nothing Can Stay Gold is argued against in The Outsiders through Johnny’s last words and Ponyboy’s theme, rendering it important in the novel.

And it also says in the poem “ He was a big man, said the size of his shoes on a pile of broken dishes by the house.”, and the sentence “And Winters cold, says the rags on the window”. If you look back at those two sentences you’ll see that I’ve bolded some words, because that really sort of gave off that feeling. And finally there's the plot of each poem, in Nothing Gold Can Stay it tells about how things come and go and change, it tells a bit about the cycle of life. Something born, it grows up, and then it dies, for example like a tree it's a sprout, then it’s a tree, it withers and finally it perishes.

Similar to “After Apple-Picking’s” metaphor’s symbolism of death and inability to finish all one’s goals due to the constraints of time, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (1923) discusses the impermanence of nature. The title itself, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” echoes a deeper meaning. According to Deirdre Fagan, Assistant Professor for the Department of Languages and Literature at Ferris State University, in Nothing Gold Can Stay, “gold represents what is most prized, spring’s first green and first flower. But all beauty is brief.” Although spring is beautiful, it gives way to time and changes into fall. In the poem, the metaphor is anything good or beautiful must inevitably end, or “nothing gold can stay.” The poem begins with the stanza, “nature’s first

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.

Robert Frost wrote this poem during the a time where people believed the end of the world was approaching, this may have had some influence on his poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". He wrote it in 1923 , which was shortly after WW2 and there was much speculation of the end. Growing up his life was dreadful, mental illness ran in his family and his wife even experianced depression.

One line of this poem is Nothing gold can stay.The literal meaning of this part of the poem is stating the growth and winter ending.The metaphoric is that you will never get your innocence back.In the novel the Outsiders,a boy named Johnny will not get his innocence back.Johnny's good friend Pony is being drowned by a Soc named Bob and Johnny decides to kill him.Johnny says "I killed him,I killed that boy" you can tell that Johnny was shocked and scarred.Johnny's innocence will never come back to him after killing Bob.

Robert Frost utilizes many different figurative devices, imagery and allusions in his poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to reveal to the audience that every beautiful thing will come to an end, and any pure or permanent thing will eventually appear false or temporary. These ideas combined with metaphors and alliterations dramatizes the truth of the title, even though it sounds ironic in itself. His allusion and use of different images, depicted in the minds of the reader, further completes his idea on the topic of gold. The poem opens by talking about the beautiful colors of spring, establishing that nature is gold before it is green. Leaves start as flowers, but they do not stay forever. This natural process is related to the fall of the Garden

In The Outsiders, Johnny explains that to be “gold” is to be like a kid look, and the way kids become aware of the world before they find out about the pain and hardships. Johnny's last dying words were “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” In the poem by Robert Frost, it says the exact opposite. The poem says that “nothing gold can stay.” This means that all good things must come to an end.

In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Frost the first and last lines deviate from the iambic trimeter, in order to emphasize the fact that nothing beautiful or great can stay. As illustrated, by his first example which is stated in the first two lines where he is talking about nature’s first green is the hardest to hold and doesn't last long, in addition he states it is like gold, which emphasizes nature’s beauty and greatness, as well by “gold” he is referring to the first mark of vegetation and era of life. Moreover, the last line which differs from the metrical norm readreses that nothing gold can stay, which the symbolic meaning of “gold” in the final of the line represents the cycle of a flower and the fact that beauty can never stay

Because the mood of Nothing Gold Can Stay is sad, the ready might feel, meloncholy or upset. The tone of the author in this poem is soft at the beginning but gradually gets sad towards the end.

“The Symbolic Analysis of Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” symbolizes that at first, things are ‘gold’ and beautiful, but as time passes, this ‘gold’ fades away. The poem says “Nature’s first green is gold”, showing that at first, nature is beautiful. The next line says “her hardest hue to hold”. This shows that is nature can only be gold for so long. This symbolizes how quickly the beauty of things can diminish over time.

This piece is a collection from 20th- century poetry. The style of Nothing Gold Can Stay is a lyric poem. It is a lyric poem because it focuses on sound and rhythm. It is a lyric is because the last word of the line rhymes with the last word of the next line, then it repeats.

     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.

“ Nothing Gold Can Stay” manifests the constant battle of life and death in nature. The beginning begins with a color scheme that depicts life’s brilliance and majesty. “Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.” Alfred Ferguson states that the simplicity of those two lines imply “ the assurance of life,” and “ common knowledge, and implications of ancient associations. Nature is cut into four seasons. Spring is best associated with life or the birth of life. Green is everywhere, and flowers are blooming. However, this will not last long for spring is nature’s “ hardest hue to hold.” “ The hue of gold with all its value associations of richness and color cannot be preserved,” as Ferguson states as well. Spring gives into summer, which associates with the height of youth or life, but summer is “only so an hour.” Summers comes and goes and then fall sets in and life gives in to death. “So Eden sank to grief” is a line that states the sinking and losing of life and then “dawn goes down to day.” Eventually, death takes all of spring away, and “Nothing gold can