What Does Stay Gold Mean

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

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.

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.

“Nothing gold can stay” (77). These wise words from Robert Frost state that nothing can stay young forever. Johnny Cade is a quiet member of the Greasers gang. Johnny’s home life is rough, his father beats him and his mother could care less about him. The Greasers are the good gang from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their rivals, the Socs, are preps who spend their time partying, or tormenting the Greasers. Throughout this story, Johnny is depicted as sensitive, selfless, and strong.

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 song described the innocence as gold. “Seize upon that moment long ago. One breath away and there you will be .So young and carefree . Again you will see. That place in time...so gold” (lines 3~5) This means that people are young and carefree and the innocence of our childhood is precious like a gold. The song described the loss of innocence as the weather. “ You thought that (innocence) all would last forever. But like the weather.. Nothing can ever and be in time.” (lines 7~9) It means people cannot keep their innocence, people always change like the weather. “Stay gold” of the song’s lyrics means that keep your purity and

Have you ever heard of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay’? Well, in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, this poem is used. It ties in by explaining how none of the Greasers, really have a childhood. They grew up very fast, and didn’t have much with toys, and friendship. The Greasers have each other and that’s all.

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.

A theme in a book is to give a particular setting or ambience to.In the book "The Outsiders" By:S.E. Hinton characters are put through tough situations.In the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost there are many themes and messages.These themes can connect to many parts of The Outsiders.

The colour golden is spoken to in terms of time. He is comparing the value of time to the value of gold when he says "Golden...Time let me play" (313), and "Time...Golden in the mercy of his means" (313). He realizes the value of time now that he is older and no longer youthful. We can hear through his words that he wishes he could have cherished time as a child as he now cherishes and values it. He last uses the word golden in the past tense. The children are spoken of "before...golden" (313). As an adult he is no linger as powerful as he was as a child. "Golden" (313) time has forever taken him far away from his "childless land" (314).

Gold is my primary color with blue coming in at a close second. I can relate to a lot of the positive qualities you stated, compassion, honesty, teamwork, but I can also relate to some of the same areas that need work. You stated “I always tend to other people and their problems before I tend to myself and mine”. Likewise, I tend to put others needs before my own, and while this could be viewed as a positive quality in nursing, it really is more of a negative one. Without taking care of ourselves first, how can we fully take care of others?

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.