Nothing Lasts Forever in Robert Frost's Poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a poem written by Robert Frost in the year 1923. The poem illustrates the fact that nothing will last forever. It especially stresses the fact that money will not last forever, and will soon disappear. Frost makes his point clear throughout the poem by alluding to nature. The entire poem talks about objects in nature that seem beautiful at first, but then subside into nothing. Throughout the poem, Frost uses deep symbolism, rhyme, and allusion to reveal his point. The poem…

as a part of the season which is known as spring; it can be assumed he means all life and all things are subject to the ravages of time. Mortality is all around us and with it the stages of all life and time pass. In terms of the opening lines, thought, youth and beauty are fleeting indeed. 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…

I tried and tried, but, in my opinion, nothing I ever wrote seemed worthy enough to share with anyone. Eventually I realized that one of the qualities of the poem that had drawn me to it was its rhythm. Being a drummer, this made perfect sense to me and justified my conclusion as to one of the reasons why I liked Frost‘s poem so much. After graduating high school, I was approached by some friends that had started a rock band, and they asked me to play the drums for them. I had been playing…

He can only look so far though because you can not look into the far away future hence the line "To where it bent in the undergrowth". The bend means that you can not look further than that certain point. The second verse compares the two roads without knowing what the other contains. He wanted to know what laid down the other road and compares the path he travelled to the one he could have travelled. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because…

Finally, as summer gives way to fall, life slips into a state of dormancy. It is said that from the moment you are born, you begin to die. Whether this is a scientific fact is questionable; growth should not be confused with aging. However, at some level, there is truth wrapped in such cynicism. Within the physical spectrum, the law of gravity enigmatically enables life to thrive just as it contributes to its eventual destruction. Like a fatal flaw, gravity creates the conditions to facilitate…

Second, in the poem Once by the Pacific there is a lot of nature expressed. Frost changes his natures view from woods to water. In this poem he now talks about water. The reader can see how powerful the water is when it eats away at the cliff. The shore was lucky by being backed by the cliff(ln 8, 1107). Once again Frost is discussing water which goes back to stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by stating the water because there is water in this poem with snow Frost keeps bringing up…

During his residency, he was able to publish two books of poems, “A Boy’s Will” and “North Of Boston.” Frost moved back to the U.S. once World War I began to start, and there, was then able to publish more works. Modern American Poetry says that his life was pretty mild up until the 1930’s, where a number of tragedies occurred in succession. First, in 1934, his youngest daughter Marjorie fell ill to puerperal fever and died from it. Then in 1938, Elinor, his wife, died of a heart attack. Finally…

society, but because society viewed them as being for the good. Good must also be addressed in terms not related to human actions. In the eyes of our society, a flower would be undoubtedly considered good, or a symbol of good. However, there is nothing in a flower that makes it good, other than its ability to be pleasing to society. The flower does not have the ability to make an overt decision to cause evil; therefore we view it as being good. Of course, Webster's dictionary doesn't quite cover…

want, and they must have it now. That is one of the main purposes of a loan. Someone wants a car, but does not want to take the time to save the money. They instead borrow the money and have to pay it back, of course at a higher cost with interest. I can honestly say that a huge majority of people are in debt. They could not wait. They had to have something now. I feel that the quote explains this by using the word "desire."; It presents the fact that people are not willing to wait, if the world is…

This is supported in the poem by the description of the moth as a "rigid satin cloth." The satin cloth can be seen like a bridal dress, suggestions of good, but the negativity of "rigid" implies perhaps on the lining of a coffin where a rigid body would lie. In the second part of the octave the speaker describes the scene again. He compares the scene and the assorted characters to "a witch's broth" (line 6), and Carter claims that this part introduces ironies regarding the observer's feelings towards…