Nothing Gold Can Stay - A poem by Robert Frost

Robert Frost - Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

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Poet: Robert Frost (Robert Frost Art) Poem: 21. Nothing Gold Can Stay Volume: New Hampshire Year: Published/Written in 1923 Poem of the Day: Mar 12 2004 Comment 344 of 344, added on May 7th, 2009 at 1:37 AM. In Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” you see his true talent for relating his poetry with the reader. Robert Frost wrote everything he got the chance to however he often wrote about weather and nature as did E.E. Cumming. Many of Robert Frost’s poems show his mastery of iambic rhythm. Robert Frost truly believed in doing what makes you happy. His poetry is what made him happy as did his family. His poems show that as long as you show your meaning truthfully your poem has succeeded because the point of poetry is to express yourself or some type of emotion. Most of his poems, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and the majority of poems in general have multiple meanings. Sarah Landry from United States Comment 343 of 344, added on May 7th, 2009 at 1:19 AM. Nothing Gold Can Stay appears in Robert Frost’s later books called New Hampshire. In this poem he tackles two literary devices to give the poem more meaning and make it more simplistic. Rather than going into detail about nature, he uses personification to bring it to life. Using this allows him to simplify a broad subject into a symbolic figure. Also he uses an allusion from the bible calling upon Eden; the great garden that humans were banished from. As it sinks away we realize that nothing good will last forever not even natures most beautiful and sacred of places. tom anderson from United States Comment 342 of 344, added on May 6th, 2009 at 11:14 PM. This Poem by Robert Frost is very enlightning because it can be put in almost anyones life. Because everyone has had something that was so good or great to have but later that feeling or lust slowly just withers. For that is why Frost said "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Juan Jaime from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay, has received 344 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Robert Frost with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Robert Frost Poem: 21. Nothing Gold Can Stay Volume: New Hampshire Year: Published/Written in 1923 Last read: Dec 9 2009, 8:35PM Poem of the Day: Mar 12 2004 Viewed 75266 times. Added on May 6th, 2009 at 11:14 PM.

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