Literary Analysis Of Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

The poem, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, by Robert Frost is an important part of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Explain how the poem relates to the key events in the novel.

Literally, the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her, like violets and a blackbird, trigger a memory from her childhood. The poem then flashbacks to a childhood memory of the persona as a young girl, which is shown through the indentation of the stanzas, where the girl wakes up in the afternoon thinking it is morning and becomes upset when she

Every one of Robert Frost’s poems connects to nature. Frost ties in flowers, trees, leaves, nature paths, and many more features of nature to make readers intrigue to read the poems. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost uses flowers and leaves to help readers better understand the poem. “The Beauty of Fall” by Lizzy Cooper, Hannah Wovna, and Mikaela Wovna uses different imagery like apple trees, pumpkins, and hilltops to draw the reader’s’ attentions to the theme. The poems, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost and “The Beauty of Fall" by Lizzy Cooper, Hannah Wovna, and Mikaela Wovna has different imagery and literary devices, but both poems share the same overall meaning.

The title of Robert Frosts poem was not obvious as to the meaning. In the shorter, eightlined version the poem appears to be about how good things dont last forever, but in the much longer poem we see his fear of the world ending. The title "Nothing Gold Can Stay" would not seem relevent without having read the poem.

One line of this poem is Nothing gold can stay.The literal meaning of this part of the poem is stating the growth and winter ending.The metaphoric is that you will never get your innocence back.In the novel the Outsiders,a boy named Johnny will not get his innocence back.Johnny's good friend Pony is being drowned by a Soc named Bob and Johnny decides to kill him.Johnny says "I killed him,I killed that boy" you can tell that Johnny was shocked and scarred.Johnny's innocence will never come back to him after killing Bob.

To achieve this goal, I have divided the poem into three parts in order to explain how they all relate to the first stanza and to paint a simple picture for understanding this great work. The first section represents a folktale styled intro, introduces us to the personality of the subject of the poem and her relationship to her environment as seen

This poem is full of beautiful energy of the natural world; from leaves and flowers to sunrises and sunsets, your head is full of golden images from beginning to end. Because he refers to nature as a her, you have an image of mother nature throughout the poem.

Nature represents the world in this poem, saying that the worlds youth is hard to hold on to in the first line, " Natures first green is gold." Dawn going down to day is an example of the world losing its youth, its gold. Eden, like the garden of Eden in the Bible, which is associated with nature, sinking to grief represents the world ending and everything gold going away.

Individuality, value, and choice. In Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost emphasizes the value and beauty of youth and nature Primarily, While in The Road Not Taken, Frost puts an emphasis on making decisions. Both poems convey the theme of valuing the things around you. In Nothing Gold Can Stay, the author, Robert Frost, emphasizes the theme through the tone of the author.

Regardless of its short length and appearance as a nature poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay manages to touch the soul of each reader and allow them to fully understand the mortality of life. “The poem narrates the short-lived experience of Spring’s first moments” and the transient nature of life as described by Frost (Kearney Web). Lines 1-4 describe gold as nature’s first color- its most beautiful and the hardest color to hold. In line 4, Frost analyzes how short lived this moment of pure happiness is. “This line is where the beautiful scene of flourishing nature takes a turn. Notice that it does so exactly halfway through the poem” (Birmingham Web). The momentary nature of line 4 signifies life’s greatest moments slowly beginning to end. The first half of the poem explains the beginning of nature and its most beautiful moments, yet a shift occurs in line 5 “Then leaf subsides to leaf,” showing how the moment of gold is gone and nature is simply nature once again- a different, more realistic kind of beauty. The reference to Eden in line 6 utilizes a mortality in the cycle of human life- birth, life and then eventually death. Life’s golden moments are temporary, just like the existence of a loved one or even one’s self. There are cycles of greatness and loss throughout life, as well as the poem. The poem concludes with a rhymed couplet that shows how dawn loses it’s luster and soon turns to day, showing that like the title, nothing gold can truly stay. Frost uses this poem as a felix culpa metaphor- displaying the fact that although temporary, the greatest moments would have no merit if they were not temporary. There is no good without bad and, conversely, there is no bad without good. Those golden moments in life and in the poem would never be appreciated fully if they were eternal, because there would be no ordinary

The children are unnoticed by others and the mother is the only one that is protecting them. This poem shows the hard times that the mother must face because her children have died. However the mother is coping with them while still protecting her children after they have died, This is the mother's way of coping because she is not yet ready to let go of her children and still wants to care for them. This poem shows this through nature by portraying the mother as a bird who is protecting her nest. Also the poem uses nature by describing the harsh times as a winter wind that has caused harm to the mother and her children.

The poem begins with the poet noticing the beauty around her, the fall colors as the sun sets “Their leaves and fruits seemed painted, but was true, / Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hue;” (5-6). The poet immediately relates the effects of nature’s beauty to her own spiritual beliefs. She wonders that if nature here on Earth is so magnificent, then Heaven must be more wonderful than ever imagined. She then views a stately oak tree and

In Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold can Stay, the theme is also about death like it also is in Out Out—, as well. Yet, this poem emphasizes more about the transience of life rather than the suddenness of life ending. “Nothing Gold can Stay” is about the appreciation for the golden days while the cycle of life continues and death becomes of each and every one of us.

Robert Frost has a fine talent for putting words into poetry. Words which are normally simplistic spur to life when he combines them into a whimsical poetic masterpiece. His 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' poem is no exception. Although short, it drives home a deep point and meaning. Life is such a fragile thing and most of it is taken for granted. The finest, most precious time in life generally passes in what could be the blink of an eye. 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' shows just this. Even in such a small poem he describes what would seem an eternity or an entire lifetime in eight simple lines. Change is eminent and will happen to all living things. This is the main point of the poem and

The imagery in the poem, specifically natural imagery, helps use the reader’s senses to develop a vivid depiction of the speaker’s connection to nature and dissatisfaction with the surrounding reality. The speaker’s continued use of the “moon” reflects her attribution of feminine identity and idolistic character to the moon. As opposed to referencing herself and her personal insomnia, she uses the imagery of the moon “beyond sleep” to convey her internal struggles with insomnia and her reality. Throughout the poem, the speaker also refers to shining, reflective surfaces, such as “a body of water or a mirror”, to describe the inverted reality in which the speaker experiences reciprocated love. Reflective surfaces often invert the image that is projected into them, seemingly distorting the true nature and reality of the projected image. The speaker’s reference to this reflective imagery highlights her desire to escape the burden of a patriarchal society and assume an independent and free feminine identity. Specifically, the use of natural imagery from the references to the “moon” and “a body of water” convey the speaker’s desire to take refuge within the Earth or in the feminine identity of the Earth, Mother Earth. Feminine identities are often related and associated with aspects of nature due to the natural cycle of the menstrual period and the natural process of procreation. The speaker takes advantage of these connotations to suggest Earth and natural imagery as an escape from the man-made terrors of male dominated society. In the second stanza, the speaker uses extensive imagery to develop metaphors conveying the speaker’s experience of jealousy of the moon