Nothing Gold Can Stay Analysis
Hunter Engstrum, Sophia Peterson, Sarah Busick, and Tori Hall
Ms. Hunter
Language Arts 8
31 January 2014
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” Analysis Is there any poem that describes life and death so wonderfully that it can fit the whole of every living being? “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost would be the poem that described life and death beautifully if there was one that would be chosen. The three reasons why it is about life and death are because of the feelings and emotions it gives off, the theme and meanings of it, and techniques used in it. The feelings and emotions used in it is the first reason why it is about life and death. The first line “, Nature’s first green is gold,,” talks about how life is beautiful, untouched, innocent, and valuable when it starts out, which evokes a feeling of happiness because it might bring the best in what you have seen in life. Then, the second, third, and fourth lines “, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour,” mostly says that either this innocent life is killed or corrupted by the truths and evils of the world, which either one evokes the emotion of sadness and helplessness that you could not help this life and that it’s beauty is gone, never to be recovered again. The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth lines then, finally, bring the poem to a close “, Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay,” by saying that all life does this until it dies and that it goes on after this period of life, which gives a feeling of finality and hope that you can try to help other lives. Every part of the poem can be shown to be a crucial part of life, as anyone can see. The nest reason why it is about life and death is because of its theme and meanings, underlying and obvious. The overall theme of the poem is that all things that our hearts hold near and dear to all go away at some point in time, as the title clearly suggests and which happen in all
Ms. Hunter
Language Arts 8
31 January 2014
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” Analysis Is there any poem that describes life and death so wonderfully that it can fit the whole of every living being? “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost would be the poem that described life and death beautifully if there was one that would be chosen. The three reasons why it is about life and death are because of the feelings and emotions it gives off, the theme and meanings of it, and techniques used in it. The feelings and emotions used in it is the first reason why it is about life and death. The first line “, Nature’s first green is gold,,” talks about how life is beautiful, untouched, innocent, and valuable when it starts out, which evokes a feeling of happiness because it might bring the best in what you have seen in life. Then, the second, third, and fourth lines “, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour,” mostly says that either this innocent life is killed or corrupted by the truths and evils of the world, which either one evokes the emotion of sadness and helplessness that you could not help this life and that it’s beauty is gone, never to be recovered again. The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth lines then, finally, bring the poem to a close “, Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay,” by saying that all life does this until it dies and that it goes on after this period of life, which gives a feeling of finality and hope that you can try to help other lives. Every part of the poem can be shown to be a crucial part of life, as anyone can see. The nest reason why it is about life and death is because of its theme and meanings, underlying and obvious. The overall theme of the poem is that all things that our hearts hold near and dear to all go away at some point in time, as the title clearly suggests and which happen in all