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“ Nothing Gold can Stay” ((Frost, Robert); Kennedy, X.J.; Gioia, Dana)by Robert Frost shares with the reader a message of wisdom by using examples of the changing of seasons. It gives the reader a feeling that in life there is change, and examples are given throughout the poem. Robert Frost creates a bittersweet tone through the uses the literal element of alliteration, metaphor, allusion and personification. Innocence is unrecoverable and inescapably lost. Robert Frost was a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry. He did see his share of loss in in life. At the age of twelve his father died from tuberculosis, then his family moved to Lawrence Ma. where he went to Laurence high school, he met his love and future …show more content…

“So Eden sank to Greif” this is a reference to the Garden of Eden (bible). Frost’s “poem deals with the irreversible change of season and the mutability of things. The joy of summer are brief and the losses brought on by fall (both seasonal and theological) are experienced in winter as a kind of spiritual death.” (Liebman). Alliteration examples are “ green as gold”. “Her hardest hue to hold”,” her early leafs a flower”,” dawn goes down to day”. “The rich alliteration connects green, grief, and gold; hardest, hue, and hold; and dawn, down, and day.” (Cureton). Some examples of allusion “so Eden sank to grief”, this is a reference to the actual Garden of Eden, from the bible where Adam and Eve brought death, or sin into the world by giving into temptation by the serpent. Metaphoric, “Natures first green is gold” this is a metaphor for youth, it remains just briefly. Personification, “her hardest hue to hold”, “Her early leaf’s a flower” referring to a female, Mother Nature. Mother Nature brings new life into our world all comes from her. Rhyming is seen with the words leaf/grief, day/stay. …show more content…

The emotions I felt seeing Ponyboy and Johnny when they are jumped and beaten up by the “socs”, then visiting Johnny on his death bed taking those last words “PonyBoy ss stay gold, PonyBoy, stay gold “ this poem was and ongoing theme in the movie, and the idea was to beat this poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, but to stay gold, don’t change and don’t loose your

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