Loss Of Innocence In Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

Explain (tell me what image the poem brings to mind)She begins by describing the "death of winter's leaves".

Literally, the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her, like violets and a blackbird, trigger a memory from her childhood. The poem then flashbacks to a childhood memory of the persona as a young girl, which is shown through the indentation of the stanzas, where the girl wakes up in the afternoon thinking it is morning and becomes upset when she

     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.

The seasons in the poem also can be seen as symbols of time passing in her life. Saying that in the height of her life she was much in love and knew what love was she says this all with four words “summer sang in me.” And as her life is in decline her lovers left her, this can be told by using “winter” as a symbol because it is the season of death and decline from life and the birds left the tree in winter. The “birds” can be seen as a literal symbol of the lovers that have left her or flown away or it can have the deeper meaning that in the last stages of our life all of our memories leave us tittering to our selves.

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.

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

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.

The line in the poem "Nothing Gold can Stay" describes how nobody can stay innocent forever. Although Ponyboy had only known life through sheltered eyes , he soon realized that not everything is perfect. Also, he was a different person after. Before he witnessed death, he was scared to death by Soc's and wouldn't dare stand up to them.

“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.

This is an example of allusion. Just like the flowers subsided, or were downgraded to become leaves, the speaker says “So Eden sank to grief” (6). This refers to the biblical fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. When Eve ate the forbidden fruit, she and Adam, and all their descendents, were forever punished by being banished from Eden and subject to all of the grief that humans know today. The poem suggests, just as it was tragic that the first biblical humans were expelled from the Garden of Eden, it is tragic that the early golden flowers of spring and dawn grow into leaves. Line seven is yet another comparison to the colors of spring turning from gold to green, and the fall of Adam and Eve, but this time, dawn is going down to day. This line means that the rebirth of anything stays pure when young and new, but once grown up and old, the thing is not beautiful anymore. The use of the word “down” (7) in this line makes the reader question the idea that, is not the sun supposed to rise in the morning? Would dawn rise up to day? The answer is yes, the sun literally comes up in the morning, but the speaker prefers dawn. Day is at a lower level because, possibly, it has lost the freshness and color of the

Spring brings beautiful flowers that will bloom only to become trees and bushes taking away the first sight of beauty when summer falls. Imagine yourself in the spring time with all of the colors around you along with freshness in the air. Peace is what comes to mind only to follow up with the next line, “only for an hour”, implying that it was nice at some point but be aware that it is soon to change. “So Eden sank to grief” this is referring to the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Garden of Eden. In that

Robert Frost's poem " Nothing Gold Can Stay," is not true since many things that are "gold" can in fact, stay. In the dictionary, the word gold refers to a shiny, bright yellow, metallic element which resists rust and other chemical changes. It can also be something made of gold, of or like gold, or bright yellow in color. The dictionary also describes gold as being something of great value.

In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” from Robert Frost, corruption first began in nature. The corruption in nature is first seen in the poem when “… leaf subsides to leaf” and “…dawn goes down to day” (Frost 5, 8). Frost says that nature was once so beautiful but by the conflict in the Garden of Eden it was corrupted. The conflict in the Garden of Eden was caused by corruption in humans. It seems that humans ruin everything good for the sake of themselves. Frost probably wrote this poem while sitting outside in the spring time reflecting on how people change for the worse. Face it, we all have been changed by either a middle school bully or boss, just like nature and humans were changed by corruption. Robert Frost is trying to tell the reader that good things can never stay because they soon become corrupted in nature and in humans.

The poem begins with the poet noticing the beauty around her, the fall colors as the sun sets “Their leaves and fruits seemed painted, but was true, / Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hue;” (5-6). The poet immediately relates the effects of nature’s beauty to her own spiritual beliefs. She wonders that if nature here on Earth is so magnificent, then Heaven must be more wonderful than ever imagined. She then views a stately oak tree and