“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost, Jr. His father was a drinker and a gambler, which made growing up hard for Robert. On June 25, 1876, Robert's sister Jeannie was born. In 1879, Frost entered kindergarten however; he soon came home because of nervous stomach “pain” and did not return back to school that whole year. The next year, he tried going to the first grade, but dropped out again; the same thing happened the next year after that. He then was home schooled. In 1888, he passed the entrance exam so that he could enter Lawrence High School. The next year, he finished at the top of his class. After that year, he started to immensely enjoy poetry. His first published poem was "La Noche Triste," in the Lawrence High School Bulletin. The next month, "The Song of the Wave" was published. In 1891, Frost passed the entrance exams to get into Harvard. Since he had to depend on his grandparents for money, he entered Dartmouth College because it was cheaper. That December, he left college because he was bored with it and wanted to move on with something else. In 1912, Frost moved to England for a while. Everyone liked his poetry and that was where he started to get famous. When Frost returned to the United States from England, he started to receive many awards. One of his proudest achievements was when he got to recite his work at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. At the end of his career, he was very popular publicly, but the poetry collections he was coming out with were not receiving such huge reviews as they used to. Through 1962 and 1963, Frost's health started to go downhill. He got pneumonia and was hospitalized, and cancer was found in his prostate and bladder. On December 23, he had an embolism. On January 7, he suffered another one. He died on January 29, 1963. Frost had many works of poetry but the one that stood out to me was Nothing Gold Can