Robert Frost's Poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'

Robert Frost has a fine talent for putting words into poetry. Words which are normally simplistic spur to life when he combines them into a whimsical poetic masterpiece. His 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' poem is no exception. Although short, it drives home a deep point and meaning. Life is such a fragile thing and most of it is taken for granted. The finest, most precious time in life generally passes in what could be the blink of an eye. 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' shows just this. Even in such a small poem he describes what would seem an eternity or an entire lifetime in eight simple lines. Change is eminent and will happen to all living things. This is the main point of the poem and

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.

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.

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”.

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 Frosts's poem, gold is used as a metaphor for the good values in humans. The meaning of gold in the the dictionary and Frost's poem are similar because they both refer to something of value. One of the meanings in the dictionary for gold indicate that it has a high material value like money. If that is what Frost meant in his poem, then "nothing gold can stay" would be true since it would be spent in exchange for people's wants and needs.

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.

Then, it goes Day (D) and Stay (D). I could find a bit of the use of senses in Nothing Gold Can Stay, but not much. The only sense used was the sense of sight. The use of the sense of sight are found in the following lines: "So dawn goes down to day" and "Her early leaf's a flower" The imagery of Nothing Gold Can Stay is simple to find.

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.

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

Robert Frost wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay in 1923, just five years after World War 1.His original poem contain more ideas about the world ending and his political views. Frost frequently spoke out on international affairs in his sly way. I feel like the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay is considered a epic because it explains how Robert Frost feels about staying young and never growing to old. The original poem Robert Frost created called Nothing Gold Stays is considered a confessional because it shows his views on political issues in the world.

The title of the poem Nothing Gold can Stay doesn't have an obvious meaning. If the readers start out, they would think it was about nature, but Frost is talking about his time in war with Germany and how the country thought that the world was coming to an end. The readers have to read between the lines to get the real story in the poem. If you look a the poem very closely, than you can see that his way of writing the book is very good because many people could look at it a hundred different ways and find a good story out of it.

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.