Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nothing Gold Can Stay
By: Robert Frost
1. Nature's first green is gold,
2. Her hardest hue to hold.
3. Her early leaf's a flower;
4. But only so an hour.
5. Then leaf subsides to leaf.
6. So Eden sank to grief,
7. So dawn goes down to day.
8. Nothing gold can stay.
Personification
Imagery
Consonance
Repetition
Paradox
Symbolism
Metaphor
Biblical Allusion
Format:
* 8 lines no stanzas
History:
* Written in 1923 * Featured in the 1967 novel, The Outsiders as well as the 1983 film adaption
Tone and Theme: * Sad * Beautiful * The shortness of life * Loss of innocence
Rhyme Scheme: * Aa,bb,cc,dd
Nothing Gold Can Stay
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom”
-Robert Frost
Robert Frost has a fine talent for putting delight and wisdom into poetry. Words which are first read and seemingly simplistic, tend to illuminate in symbolism and representation. He combines imagery, personification and paradox into a whimsical poetic masterpiece. Nothing Gold Can Stay, a poem written in 1923, embodies the concept of short-lived youth and the loss of innocence. It contains metaphors and imagery that delineates the concept of the finest things in life passing by in a blink of an eye.
Nature's first green is gold
The Poem immediately begins with comparisons to the priceless values of youth. In a literal sense, “Natures first green is gold,” represents the golden hue that everything turns, when the sun rises.However Robert Frost isn't using the word gold in a literal sense, but in a figurative way. He implies that the beauty of nature is valuable and precious and should be savored, but mankind has looked upon it only as its resources and money. He does this with metaphor and paradox, creating a sense of irony between the words and its meaning. The use of the word gold compares to the way James Arlington Wright uses the word golden in Bologna: a poem about gold. In the poem
By: Robert Frost
1. Nature's first green is gold,
2. Her hardest hue to hold.
3. Her early leaf's a flower;
4. But only so an hour.
5. Then leaf subsides to leaf.
6. So Eden sank to grief,
7. So dawn goes down to day.
8. Nothing gold can stay.
Personification
Imagery
Consonance
Repetition
Paradox
Symbolism
Metaphor
Biblical Allusion
Format:
* 8 lines no stanzas
History:
* Written in 1923 * Featured in the 1967 novel, The Outsiders as well as the 1983 film adaption
Tone and Theme: * Sad * Beautiful * The shortness of life * Loss of innocence
Rhyme Scheme: * Aa,bb,cc,dd
Nothing Gold Can Stay
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom”
-Robert Frost
Robert Frost has a fine talent for putting delight and wisdom into poetry. Words which are first read and seemingly simplistic, tend to illuminate in symbolism and representation. He combines imagery, personification and paradox into a whimsical poetic masterpiece. Nothing Gold Can Stay, a poem written in 1923, embodies the concept of short-lived youth and the loss of innocence. It contains metaphors and imagery that delineates the concept of the finest things in life passing by in a blink of an eye.
Nature's first green is gold
The Poem immediately begins with comparisons to the priceless values of youth. In a literal sense, “Natures first green is gold,” represents the golden hue that everything turns, when the sun rises.However Robert Frost isn't using the word gold in a literal sense, but in a figurative way. He implies that the beauty of nature is valuable and precious and should be savored, but mankind has looked upon it only as its resources and money. He does this with metaphor and paradox, creating a sense of irony between the words and its meaning. The use of the word gold compares to the way James Arlington Wright uses the word golden in Bologna: a poem about gold. In the poem