Nothing Gold Can Stay

To further my knowledge and gather information on a subject, I used Galileo. The online library gives you access to many different articles, books, reviews, and more, to help you find the right information. With the database, you can do a basic search and type in what you are searching for, or you can do a more advanced search and be specific about what exactly you want to find information on. So I changed keyword to title and type in the name of the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and since it is a widely known poem there was a great amount of information made available to me.

The very first article that I came upon was, “Burning Gold for John Robert Ross,” written by Donald C. Freeman. He speaks of him and a man named Haj and how they want to bring back the importance of literature. They use “Nothing Gold Can Stay” as an example and analyze line after line of the poem. As they pick apart each couplet, they find patterns that Frost used to help the reader better understand a truer meaning behind the poem.

Cureton. He writes an essay of a theory he developed that “rhythm can both enrich rhythmic description and connect it explicitly to both other aspects of poetic language and cultural context” (Cureton). Through the rest of the essay he wrote, Cureton speaks of the importance of rhythm and how there is deeper meaning beyond just rhyming words. He continues to go on by providing examples of how rewording the lines of the poem “loses its power”