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Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay
In the lyric poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, it describes the gorgeousness of nature in the morning sun by saying it was comparable to gold or a flower, and explains how it is saddening that it would go away when it nears day. And, with the use of a lyric poem which is a poem that expresses the thoughts or emotion of the speaker and it involves the use of a rhyme scheme he was able to explain his thought and emotions more clearly to the reader. Although the poem explains how nature is incomparably beautiful in the morning and sadly disappears closer to the day, he is able to illustrate the underlying meaning through the use of metaphors, personification, and

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