Robert Frost wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay in 1923, Frost wrote this poem out of fear that the world would end, he did not publish the entire poem and modified the first section. The first section is whatś featured in print. By not publishing the entire piece, this leads me to believe he may have feared judgement, or the original work was for a specific audience. The style of this particular poem is a narrative, a poem that tells a story. This poem tells the story of how maybe the world might be ending, even though that is not in the finished, published poem. Nothing Gold can Stay means that everything eventually will change, you can't hold on to something forever. Nothing Gold can stay, nothing perfect will stay forever, like if you draw a …show more content…
Gold referring to the pure. The passage of time in the poem if you look at just the words and not the true meaning behind the poem is the passing time of the seasons, specifically Spring, and then turns to either probably Fall or Winter. Frost also talks about dawn to day, which may talk about a baby turning into a child, or a child to an adult. While The poem does have the word "Her" included, Frost does not list any characters in Nothing Gold Can Stay. The 'name' "Eden" refers to a garden in the religion of Christianity. Frost is hiding, or at least never published the part about, the end of the world. This may lead one to believe he did not want to cause panic among people, because they listened to him. Though he still wanted to get some point across, as evident of him publishing the …show more content…
The repetition in the poem follows an AABBAABB beat or rhythm. The rhyming word, or last word of every line in order is: gold, hold, flower, hour, leaf, grief, day, stay. the repetition is a fairly simple one and not incredibly complex. The only real sense in the poem is the use of sight if you take the words literally and not the true meaning behind the poem. The aforementioned sight could be of the first leaf, that is a flower, and seeing Eden sinking to grief and dawn going down to day. The poem is setting the image of nature, and plants, if taking the words and not the true meaning behind the poem in to consideration. As was mentioned in "Use of the Senses in the Poem" showing how Eden sank to grief and dawn going down to day. The Language in the poem is soft and gentle, in the beginning at least, but grows darker and slightly more depressing as the poem progresses, talking about how Children grow up and lose their purity. (Represented in "Dawn goes down to day") There is rhyming, an AABBAABB rhyme
The alliteration used is to emphasize rhythm in the poem. On the other hand, the poet also depicts a certain rhyme scheme across each stanza. For example, the first stanza has a rhyme scheme of this manner a, b, c, d, e, a. With this, the rhyme scheme depicted is an irregular manner. Hence, the poem does not have a regular rhythm. Moreover, the poet uses a specific deign of consonance, which is present in the poem (Ahmed & Ayesha, p. 11). The poet also uses the assonance style depicted in the seventh stanza, “Seven whole days I have not seen my beloved.” The letter ‘o’ has been repeated to create rhythm and to show despair in the poem. On the second last line of the seventh stanza, the poet uses the style of consonance, “If I hug her, she’ll drive illness from me. By this, the letter ‘l’ is repeated across the line. The poet’s aim of using this style of Consonance is to establish rhythm in the poem and add aural
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.
Adding on to the previous paragraph, Frost in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Frost uses an allusion in “So Eden sank to grief So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay”(lines 6-8). This is an allusion because it refers to the story of Adam and Eve in which both are in paradise but are soon thrown out after giving in to temptation. This helps to convey the
Life and death are leaves us with an known and unknown that are unavoidable. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost symbolism, rhyme, and allusion are used to describe not only nature’s life cycle but the human life cycle as well. The allegory “Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys uses symbolism and motif to deliver a story of a woman who has died but is unaware that she has actually passed away. Even though both of these pieces of literature utilize similar elements that symbolize the human life cycle in their writings they are very different in nature, and the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” leaves you with an actual reality of all beings lifecycles and the allegory leaves you with imagination only.
Everywhere around the world, for 21 centuries, all men and women, boys and girls, lose their innocence and cannot gain it back. The Outsiders is a book of depression, death, fear, grief, and a group of friends that act tough but are soft of the insides. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost describes a character in the Outsiders by S.E Hinton in metaphorical ways. The first line of this delightful poem is “Nature's first green is gold”.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" also has a personal sense to it, but the author of this poem, Robert Frost, does not try to make the same connection with his readers. Allegory is put to use in this poem with the case of nature. Instead of using personal pronouns to draw the reader into the story as Owen does, Frost uses them to personify nature, always referring to it as "her". The opening lines of the poem say, "Nature's first green is gold / Her hardest hue to hold". This is a common occurrence in writing, especially when dealing with nature. By personifying nature as a woman, rather than just an object, the reader is able to connect more with that character. This is because it is easier for humans to relate to another person than it is for them to relate to an object, even if only on paper.
The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” means that nothing good can stay, in other words, you won’t always have that goodness and innocence within you. The poem begins when you are first born, which is when you are gold, innocent and pure of heart, but as you mature you commence to make dreadful decisions. As you continue making bad decisions your gold begins to dwindle because you are no longer pure of heart, for you have now committed several sins. These sins include being rude and disrespectful, having envy of others and much more dreadful decisions one may take. Essentially being the meaning of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay”.
Frost was known for writing poetry with an emphasis on nature. He used the changing of the seasons to symbolize events that were also occurring in the lives of the characters portrayed in his poems as well as to give a vivid depiction of the human condition. For instance, in “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, Frost opens the poem with a line about the shade of the leaves, but by the end of the poem it becomes evident that the gold in which he is describing has little to do with nature, but rather is a depiction of things valued in life and the frailty there of. Mordecai Marcus stated in his book The Poems of Robert Frost: an explication, “Frost's view resembles Emerson's idea that being born into this world is the fall implying that the suffering and decay brought by natural processes are what we know of evil… The "Nothing" of the last line, repeated from the title, receives special emphasis; the gold that cannot stay comes to represent all perfections” (Marcus) Using nature as a means to symbolize the cycle of human existence was a common thread in a large number of Frost’s poems.
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.
“ 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.
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.
The dress is gold, because it represents how “pure” she is, almost as “pure as gold”. All the outward “seasons” never affected her.
Her early leaf’s a flower; /But only so an hour (3-4). “Nothing Gold Can Stay” represents Hazel’s and Augustus’s relationship. To Hazel, Augustus was “gold”, which symbolize the most beautiful things in life, but does not stick around very long. Augustus was that beautiful thing in her life, but her beautiful thing in life could not stick
The poem is showing how many people are questioning the way Frost conducts himself and his happiness. Everything in Frost’s poem up until the last stanza is dark and depressing. An example of this is, “Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.” (Frost, Lines 7 and 8). Frost is so consumed in the sadness, that its very dark around him. The last stanza is where Frost’s hopefulness is presented. The happiness is hinted towards, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” (Frost, Lines 13 to 16). He has promised himself to always keep moving forward and focusing on the goodness that life has to offer. Frost knows that he isn’t quite there yet, but he will not give up. He emphasizes his perseverance by reaping himself twice when he says “And miles to go before I sleep,” (Frost, Line 15). He had a break through and knows that he cannot give up. He is taking the little bit of happiness he knows to transform his life completely too where he is happy with every aspect of it. He is taking the hope that he does have and running with it, not looking back at the despair he feels that surrounds
There is a rhythm throughout the poem with strong rhyme, this pattern is like heavy breathing you have when you try to go to sleep it could also represent the rhythmical counting of sheep.