Nothing Gold Can Stay Analysis
Frost’s poems could be considered pessimistic or realistic. I think that the poem was expressing reality. It was balancing negative and positive aspects. For example in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, it shows the beauty as a rarity but also demonstrates that it existed. Another example is the poem “Birches”, which the boy took time away from his life filled with tasks to have fun climbing the birches. Also in the poem “Design”, it expressed the basic form of the food chain.
Walt Whitman said that he understood people by imaginatively participating in their experiences. Whitman’s poetry encourages readers to become participants in the experiences he tried to convey. One example is in the “Song of Myself”, where Walt addresses the reader
directly, as if he was saying they know each other. Another example in the “Song of Myself”, is when Walt describes the runaway slave. He used many physical sensations and adjectives to have the reader feel what the slave felt.
Emily Dickinson says a lot about love. In “Heart!” Emily expresses how the speaker is suffering from love that has gone and won’t come back. So there’s this lost love gone forever. In “Fall,” there is expectation that he is to return. Also in “Heart!” there is an uncertainty about whether the loved one can be forgotten but in “Fall,” there is an uncertainty about when the love will be fulfilled. So I think that Emily is trying to say that love is something that can be painful, it hurts to watch the person you love leave, even if they are coming back.
Walt Whitman said that he understood people by imaginatively participating in their experiences. Whitman’s poetry encourages readers to become participants in the experiences he tried to convey. One example is in the “Song of Myself”, where Walt addresses the reader
directly, as if he was saying they know each other. Another example in the “Song of Myself”, is when Walt describes the runaway slave. He used many physical sensations and adjectives to have the reader feel what the slave felt.
Emily Dickinson says a lot about love. In “Heart!” Emily expresses how the speaker is suffering from love that has gone and won’t come back. So there’s this lost love gone forever. In “Fall,” there is expectation that he is to return. Also in “Heart!” there is an uncertainty about whether the loved one can be forgotten but in “Fall,” there is an uncertainty about when the love will be fulfilled. So I think that Emily is trying to say that love is something that can be painful, it hurts to watch the person you love leave, even if they are coming back.