Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Robert Frost wrote this poem during the beginning of the second world war in the United States.
Nothing Gold Can Stay is a narrative because it tells a story about nature
The meaning of the title of this poem are not obvious because it tells nothing about anything staying gold.
Although there is gold in the poem there is not very much repetition in Frost's poem
Sessions or birth and death
Although there is no direct characters in the poem, it uses personification about nature.
Robert Frost has the readers fill in the blanks on some lines of his poem but makes his meaning clear
Nothing Gold can Stay does not have any cultural details, behavior, dress or speech habits.
The poem is an obvious reality because it talks about real things in the world

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