Robert Lee Frost's Poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American Poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a short poem that was written in 1923. The poem read as both the rose’s blossom, as well as its sharpest thorn. Although the poem seems to be about the nature, there is an obvious connection to human beings. The poem shows common to youth in nature, the early theological beginning of man and the passing of each day. Frost’s poem focuses on the concept of mankind’s blossoming potentials and of the inevitable downfall or decay. Frost gives no consolation for the “grief” suffered after this decay, but merely states the fact of its occurrence.
The poem has been interpreted in the novel ‘The Outsiders’ too. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Robert Frost creates a seasons of one’s life, picturesque, vivid and describe the year passing as the colors do with time. The poem is only eight lines long, but it possesses some powerful thoughts. Frost writes about how hard it is to hold onto youth and quickly time flies by after only flowering from an hour. Kearney and Donald Freeman supports the Robert Frost poem through articles.
In first four lines, Frost disclose the beauty of world and makes us believe of trees like the willow, which are golden early in spring, before they cultured to green. Gold in poem especially represents the temporary sparkle of new life of leaf and also talks of anything we hold valuable in life. The poem set the image of human comparison to the seasons of
Each line, every image has explanation, interpretation and emotional value, in fact poetry has capture its account or fame for being not easy to explain. Robert Frost’s Poem “Nothing Gold can Stay” can be taken as the best example of this idea. The poet was written in 1923, which helped the Frost to earn the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Although the poem was not been widely read; it is extensively known poems among the Millennial generation. The reason for its popularity is not because of Frost, rather it is because of the 1923 film The Outsiders which was about gang violence between Greasers and Socs. The movie is from S.E Hinton’s novel The Outsider’s, which every American Millennial had to read in 7th or 8th grade and subsequently had to watch the movie to understand its idea and interpret it. The poem is stated in the novel itself, but the situation of American Millennial are very familiar with a particular scene in the movie, where Ponyboy and Johnny are watching the sunrise over a hill. Johnny and Ponyboy begin discussing how beautiful the sunrise is and how they wish it would last forever. This comment helps Ponyboy remember Frost’s Poem. Once he recites the poem, Ponyboy remarks that “he never understood what [the poem] meant until now” as he and Johnny watch the sunrise, and wonder what they are going to do about the trouble back home (“The Outsiders-Nothing Gold can Stay”). Ponyboy comment