Robert Frost wrote "Nothing Gold Can Stay" in 1923, just five years after World War 1. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is Narrative because it tells a story about life. The title of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" implies multiple possibilites. Most people thought of this poem as growing older, but Frost's reasoning for the poem was that he thought the world was ending. Frost repeated the word "her" in the poem, which represents Mother Nature. Frost doesn't tell specifically what season is taking place, but with the context clues you know that it takes place in the beginning of Spring. There are not any specific characters, but Frost uses figurative language with Eden and Mother Nature to tell the story. Frost was hiding some information from the readers. …show more content…
He was talking about the end of the world, but nobody would have known that, unless he put words in there like "Russia" or "war". This poem doesn't stress cultural details.
This poem is reality because Frost is talking about the seasons that take place on Earth. The mood of the poem is sad and depressing. The tone of the poem is calm and smooth. The theme of the poem is to enjoy things while they're still here The rhythm of the poem keeps dying as the poem ends. At the beginning, the first green was gold, then by the end, it was dying away. Frost used the sentences "Nature's first Green is gold" and " Eden sank to grief" to express imagery. Frost used the sentences "Nature's first Green is gold" and " Eden sank to grief" to express imagery. The poem doesn't use any certain noises, but you could infer that it is calm and peaceful there. There was alliteration in the poem like "Nature's first green is gold", "Her hardest hue to hold", and "dawn goes down to day". There is rhyme in the poem and the rythm of it is "AABB". When Frost read his poem out loud, it was very smooth and calm. This helped me with the tone of the poem. The deepness in his voice sounded sad, which helped me find the mood of the poem. 1- Mother Nature’s first bud is precious. 2- Mother Nature cannot keep this color long 3- The first leaf of Spring is valuable 4- It seems that Spring is very
short 5- the leaf can’t stay green forever 6- The preciousness of Spring goes away 7- The horizon looks better at dawn than day 8- Preciousness does not last long
Frost uses different stylistic devices throughout this poem. He is very descriptive using things such as imagery and personification to express his intentions in the poem. Frost uses imagery when he describes the setting of the place. He tells his readers the boy is standing outside by describing the visible mountain ranges and sets the time of day by saying that the sun is setting. Frost gives his readers an image of the boy feeling pain by using contradicting words such as "rueful" and "laugh" and by using powerful words such as "outcry". He also describes the blood coming from the boy's hand as life that is spilling. To show how the boy is dying, Frost gives his readers an image of the boy breathing shallowly by saying that he is puffing his lips out with his breath.
In his poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, poet Robert Frost communicates the idea that everything created in the cosmos which is pure and possesses the beauty of gold can’t be put at a halt. It will lose its glow or purity at one time or the other. He reveals this idea through the use of a metaphor. Through lines one and five of his poem, he compares the nature’s leaves to a golden and beautiful sighted moment that doesn’t last long enough so that we can enjoy its bright view every day, and ultimately it all withers away through its color and appearance. “Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.” In these lines, Robert Frost explains the meaning that the glistening green color of the nature when all its leaves bloom is a flourishing sight, but it’s a radiant color that is hard to be hold. In line six, he uses an allusion to Adam and Eve’s story. “So Eden sank to grief.” This line expands on the idea that purity is another thing that can’t remain forever. When Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden and that created consequences...
The Tragic Impermanence of Youth in Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay In his poem "Nothing Gold can Stay", Robert Frost names youth and its attributes as invaluable. Using nature as an example, Frost relates the earliest green of a newborn plant to gold; its first leaves are equated with flowers. However, to hold something as fleeting as youth in the highest of esteems is to set one's self up for tragedy. The laws of the Universe cast the glories of youth into an unquestionable state of impermanence.
The poem states that everything eventually comes to an end and that not even gold can remain unchanged. The poem explains this theme with many metaphors about everything that’s coming to an end. Freeman explains that “Even the poem's rhymes contribute to this sense of inevitability: Nature's gold we (or She) cannot hold; the flower lasts only an hour; the post flower leaf is like Eden's grief; the coming of day means that dawn's gold cannot stay”(2). The poem explains that everything has a natural cycle and that nothing lasts forever. When the poem states “nothing can stay gold”, Frost looks back at the flower and the time of day and implies that it all comes to an end.
In the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," written by Robert Frost, metaphors for endings and beginnings, subtle religious hints at the felix cupla, and Christian symbolism form a cohesive theme that illustrates how the end of something leads to a hopeful beginning for something else. Alternate interpretations exist such as Bernetta Quinn's article, "Symbolic Landscape in Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"," published in the English Journal in 1966. Quinn concedes that the religious theme is the most accepted interpretation but encourages discussion of other elements. (Quinn 1966) Judaeo Christian and nature symbolism paint a picture of transitions that are cyclic. The result of this interpretation is that fortunate beginnings replace concepts of loss and give the passage a hopeful tone.
The title of Nothing Gold Can Stay does not have an obvious meaning. Luckily Frost uses metaphors throughout the poem that make the title make much more sense.
Nor does it tell whether it is to do with the weather or changes in seasons with the colors. Although, it does mention how much of gold can stay with is nothing and that gives people at least a clue to what the poem is about. It does imply multiple possibilities in which could be the changes in color of the leaves and trees in the fall or just natural seasons with the gold colors. Although there is no repitition used occasionally in any sentences or phrases, the word "gold" is used at least 3 times including the title.
Robert Frost wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay in 1923, just five years after World War 1. His original poem contains more ideas about the world ending and his political views. Frost frequently spoke out on international affairs in his sly way. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost wrote his narrative poem that tells a story about life. The title is an obvious title, but still has some mystery behind it.
The meaning of the title of this poem are not obvious because it tells nothing about anything staying gold.
Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly relate to the events leading to the end of the world. It is an "uncertain" and sometimes controversial topic, and even if everyone was certain it was coming, we do not know exactly how it will occur and when. Therefore, how did Frost envision this event? Is he portraying it in a religious context, a naturalistic one, or both? The last line (14) speaks of God putting out the light, which brings out a religious reference, but the bulk of the poem deals with nature entirely. Physical images of water, clouds, continents, and cliffs present a much more complex setting than the simple setting in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" or the yellow wood in "The Road Not Taken."
This metaphor demonstrates Frost’s attempt to create themes relating to human nature that almost everyone can relate to. Secondly, another one of Frost’s poems, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” explores themes of innocence and nature. Frost personifies nature by describing nature's color as, “Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower;” (Frost, Lines 2-3). His description of nature itself is beautiful and has a new life, but as things shift into gold it is now perfect.
Robert Frost’s intricate meanings are stated in such a way that the reader must dwell so much deeper into the poem than one does when one just reads the poem. The poet has a major theme in all of his poems and that theme is nature. Nature is something that Frost could always relate to. In nature Frost sees life, people, and situations in life. In the poem “After Apple-Picking”, he uses the situation of a man picking an apple as another lesson on life. Picking apples is tedious work where one must observe and pick the ripest apples...
Nature is an important theme in every frost poem. Nature usually symbolizes age or other things throughout Frost’s poems. In lines 5-10 it says, “Often you must have seen them loaded with ice a sunny winter morning after a rain. They click upon themselves as the breeze rises, and turn many-colored as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells.” This demonstrates how nature can sometimes symbolize something. Also in lines 29-33 it says, “ By riding them down over and over again until he took the stiffness out of them, and not one but hung limp, not one was left for him to conquer. He learned all there was to learn about not launching too soon.” In lines 44-48 it says, And life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig’s having lashed across it open. I’d like to get away from earth for a while.”
par. 1). With clever poetic purpose, Frost‘s poems meld the ebb and flow of nature to convey
Frost, Robert, and Robert Faggen. The Notebooks of Robert Frost. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 2006. Print.