Literary Analysis : Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay was written by Robert Frost in 1923. The poem is aboout how as things grow older they lose their innocence. Like how when a leaf in the fall turns brown and dies or how when a child turns into an adult they mature and lose the innocence they had a a young child. The poem says "nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold". This means that when something is first born, they are born clean and pure, which is the hardest thing to be in our time.

     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.

Robert Frost is the author of Nothing Gold Can Stay. Although you have to break down this poem to get the real meaning, it is based off of his point of view of politics. But, this poem can also be taken many different ways. Even though I said it was based off of politics, it can also be about nature and life.

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.

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

“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.

When Ponyboy and Johnny member of the greasers kill Bob a soc member they now have to go into hiding. Then they come back to fight at the end. The poem “Nothing gold can stay” by Robert Frost, means that nothing valuable, beautiful, and perfect can ever last forever. The poem gives different examples that nothing that is valuable would ever last forever. Purity in life is so temporary because you grow up and experience whatever there is to.

In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay I think that this poem is more about life because in the whole poem it talks about how plants and seasons change, and it also talks about this beautiful garden that is named Eden and says how she sank to grief because all of the leaves are falling and the seasons are changing. I also thought that this poem uses more of a rhyme scheme,also an aa bb pattern because at the end of each sentence it uses a word that rhymes with the word above it or below it.some examples are gold and hold, flower and hour,leaf and grief and also day and stay. This is also known as a aa bb pattern. These are all of the observations that I found to the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay.

Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost is used in the book The Outsiders by Ponyboy while watching the sun rise . The poem reflects on the book in many ways. The Poem describes a persons life going up and down thru life.The Gang, Johnny, and dally are incredible examples of the change such as the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”.

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.

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.

The poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Abandoned Farmhouse. Both of these poems have differences and similarities. Some similarities are change, mood, and. Some differences are rhyming patterns and personification. Some similarities are change in Abandoned Farmhouse at first they lived in a but at the end they didn't.

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.