old. Four out of six of Frost’s children had died before he died. Because of Frost’s history with death‚ his poems usually have a theme of the inevitability of death. Furthermore‚ in what ways does Robert Frost use nature imagery to underline key ideas? In his poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay‚" Frost skillfully utilizes the natural cycles of the seasons as symbolic representations of various stages in human life. This poetic
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"Nothing Gold can Stay" What do people think gold means? Well I think that gold is part of a sun set. So when a sun comes up the trees‚ flowers‚ and the grass‚ starts to come up as well. The sun gives the animals and the plants energy to get up and go. When the sun is up all day‚ kids will go outside and play. The sun also gives the world heat. Without the sun the world will have no light to play and no heat to stay warm. The sun plays a big role in nature‚ it gives plants and animals so many
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Dr. Stancil 18 February 2014 Nothing Gold Can Stay This poem dramatizes the very human desire to hold on to what they have deemed “golden.” Frost poem basically goes through the whole cycle of life and he is retelling the history of the world in only four rimmed couplets. He starts in the season of spring but quickly changes into fall which will lead to the end of something beautiful. Frost puts his symbolism to use as well. “Nature’s first green is gold‚ her hardest hue to hold” (1
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The theme of the poem‚ “Nothing Gold Can Stay‚” is transience‚ which is things of life change very quickly. The first stanza clearly introduces this theme‚ “Nature’s first green is gold‚ / Her hardest hue to hold” (1-2). The first sentence‚ “Nature’s first green is gold”‚ refers to the first scene of spring‚ which symbolizes the new starting‚ the new life‚ and the new cycle. Because they are new and seraphic‚ the poet describes them as the color of “gold”. Furthermore‚ the second line‚ “Her hardest
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class we are reading the book‚ The Outsiders written by S.E Hinton. We also read the poem‚” Nothing Gold Can Stay “ written by Robert Frost. The book has two groups‚ the greasers and Soc’s and between them there is a lot of conflict. In the poem it means things can’t stay forever. Chapter four of The Outsiders talks about how Johnny kills Bob one of the Soc’s‚ and they run away‚ and the poem‚” Nothing Gold Can Stay” is about everything changes overtime. The theme of chapter four would be divided
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beautiful and interesting because I often have a hard time to understand tem. In this essay‚ I choose two poems to explicate‚ which is “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”. Through the process of completing this assignment‚ I have a lot of struggles such as the deeper meaning of each line‚ the grammar‚ the balance between two poems‚ and the figurative languages. Furthermore‚ when I am writing the essay‚ I have problems of looking for the metaphor and explain them‚ I am struggling with its meaning
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Frost wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay in 1923‚ five years after WWII. His original poem contained more ideas about the world wars. He felt the need to change it because the first version contained a lot about the world ending and it scared people. I feel like the poem would be considered a narrative poem because it kind of tells a story. The title’s meaning is pretty obvious to me.The title is a reference to the fact that people grow and change. When a person is young they are considered gold. It could
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Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost is one of the greatest poets of our time‚ and “Nothing gold can stay” is one of the many great poems I love by him. “Nothing gold can stay” holds a special place in my heart due to it being my very last show in the Laker Marching band. Of my three years of being in Color-guard I learned to embody music‚ books‚ and poems. Spending hundreds of hours on a show based off of this poem‚ it brought the meaning of it to me to new heights. At the end of the year I did not
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In Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay‚” the speaker proclaims that fame and the things we value last only “an hour” (4). Having lost his wife and children which for him were like gold‚ Frost comes to the sobering recognition that “Nothing gold can stay” (8). Frost feels plagued by solitude but struggles with distancing himself. Frost’s two poems “Mending Wall” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both represent Frost’s desire for human connection because of its value. Though it appears that
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“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a short poem written by Robert Frost that expresses how nothing good can last forever. Frost explains this through a use of imagery. Similarly‚ I can compare my experience of going up the Empire State Building to this poem. The sunset from there was an extraordinary view. But like most beautiful and perfect things‚ it won’t last forever. Unfortunately‚ a sunset only lasts for a certain amount of time. I figure that‚ almost every person has experienced such an amazing and
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