Analysis Of Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Robert Frost wrote this poem in 1923. Frost is referencing Christan creation from the prespectave of a Christan. The peoem is about creation and how creation evolves over time. Frost is an American poet from New England. He was always concerned by the political afairs of the 20th centery. This piece is a collection of 20th century of poetry.
Nothing Gold Can Stay is a narrative, it tells a story about nature's first green
The title Nothing Gold Can Stay repeats in the last line of the poem, even though this poem is very short. In the title, Gold is a symbol for anything is life that has great value. Nothing of great vaule can stay. The meaning is not exactly
Through out this poem, Nature is repetitivly refered to, but the only line to ever
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What it means by this is that anything of worth, like gold, can stay the way it is. Like the new phone, and how that it seems to decrease in worth overtime. when i read the poem, it sounds monotone running about 120 beats per minute. It seems that there could be an accelerando from the start to the end, though.
When the poem mentions 'Nature's first green is gold, i can feel myself touching the first leaf, feeling it. also if I try to picture the poem, it gets brighter from lines 1-4 and darker from 5-8.
I read the poem and picture one leaf on a tree in line one, and it struggling in line 2. In lines 3 I imagine the leaf again, and feel it's importance. In line 4, I see lots of more leafs coming forth from the tree. The first leaf you have been trying to keep track of bends into the crowd in line 5. You notice a girl that was apperently been there the entire time looking very sad that the importance is gone in line 6. As you read line 7, the time of day continues on, and in line 8, it fades out with the sound of "Nothing gold can stay"
The rhyme pattern in this poem is AA BB CC DD. The rhyme pattern is ending rhyme. There isn't internal rhyme exept for repeated

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