Contemporary Issues In Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost once said, “Don 't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” This quote can be seen as someone broken with such high defenses being loved by another who doesn’t understand the pain and tries to destroy all those defenses. This is exactly the kind of perception that Frost had, everything is dangerous, fear and cautiousness are the supposed answer. While Frost’s work is full of fear it does relate to contemporary people. Contemporary souls have much of the same problems that Frost’s society had to endure such as fear of the unknown or lost. While his society can be seen as rural, and fearful of change, which is a contrast to the contemporary society so ever-present, it is also similar do to his view that the world

This example talks about how beautiful things are always being lost and that they are so precious that they shouldn’t be taken away. This relates to contemporary problems because of it’s idea that our world is being destroyed and it is inevitable if change is not present. While Frost’s work is very rural it still conveys contemporary issues. In Frost’s poem, Birches, it says near the end “It 's when I 'm weary of considerations, / And life is too much like a pathless wood” (43-44) This proves that Frost is a weary character that some can relate to but he still remains his own

“ And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.” (11-12) This clearly proves Eliot’s poem is fragmented because the translation talks about a woman that is not Russian from Lithuania but German. Eliot goes from drinking coffee casually to speaking German about not being a Lithuanian woman. Although his thoughts are scattered they still contain view on the world that is everpresent. He sees the world as ravaged and completed destructed by World War 1. In the end, Eliot tries to amend his fragmentation by making it known that he did make it