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

     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.

Part of you is being slowly chipped away, the more and more you live life the less and less you have of it and you don't even know it. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a poem by Robert Frost that uses nature to represent innocence in a person. The Outsiders is about a boy named Ponyboy and his gang the Greasers dealing with bullying, deaths, and life threatening situations that chips away at their personalities. In the Poem “Nothing gold can stay” by Robert Frost and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the theme innocence is portrayed in similar ways.

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.

“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 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.

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.

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.

Whether it be good or bad expect change and the world evolve. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is only eight lines long and makes a bold statement. Saying that nothing good can last, as it mentions nature in the first line. Using nature helps the authors tell the story mainly through the cycle of life and death. Season change and so does life, so when moments are precious we should appreciate those moments.

The novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger was written from the perspective of a high school boy by the name of Holden Caulfield. Throughout the book, Holden struggles with the fact that his brother his died and as a result, fails out of school and is depressed often. Not wanting to face his parents’ anger, he begins wandering around New York City for a few days reminiscing on childhood memories and trying to make sense of his life and why he’s forced to soon grow up. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost explains that nothing great is permanent. The author describes all things beautiful as extremely temporary and hard to hold on to. The common theme of The Catcher in the Rye and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is that good things can never last forever.

I have come up with a theme for S.E Hinton's book The Outsiders and Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing gold can stay”.The book The Outsiders is about two rival gangs and is told by Ponyboy Curtis the main character, who is part of the greaser's gang.In the poem, Frost talks about how nothing new or gold can stay that way forever.First, I will be telling the book’s theme and them the poems.

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.