Nothing Gold Can Stay

Through the use of metaphors, imagery, and personification, Frost explains that nothing, especially that which is perfect and beautiful, can last forever. First and foremost, Frost uses the metaphor of nature to display a theme throughout the poem. A quote from the poem that supports this evidence is, “So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” This line is yet another comparison to the colors of spring turning from gold to green, and the fall of Adam and Eve, but this time, dawn is…

The Outsiders Essay Beyulah Anderson intro: theme- nothing gold can stay or appearance: Do you think something good and perfect can last forever? This question refers to the poem by Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay. which is a poem about how everything beautiful and perfect is precious and can't stay forever. This is a prominent theme to think about as you read this essay. The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton tells a story about a 14 year old boy trying to understand the harsh world in which he…

it couldn’t stay like that all the time.’ ‘Nothing gold can stay.’ I was remembering a poem I’d read once. ‘What?’ ‘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.’’” Some readers may brush it off thinking that it was an unimportant and random piece of the novel, but this is not true. The Outsiders and the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by…

In the novel The Outsiders, Ponyboy shared a poem titled Nothing Gold Can Stay with Johnny while saying he didn’t understand the signification of the poem, but it related to him more than he thought. The few lines of the poem are, “Natures first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold, her early leaf's a flower but only so an hour.” This line compares green with the colour gold, implying that green is the most precious colour in nature because it is the hardest for it to be preserved. Green…

I have read the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton and the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. The book is about two different groups the socs and greasers who are always fighting. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is about life and how most things that are good never stay. The theme of the book is divided community and the theme of the poem is nothing that is good ever lasts. The theme of chapter four from The Outsiders is divided community. The socs always jump the greasers and both groups…

Nothing Gold Can Stay Forever In this poem by Robert Frost, it talks about how "Nothing Gold Can Stay Forever." He's right in a lot of ways, however; "gold" can mean different things to different people. It can mean love, youth, health, memories, sunsets, sunrises, flowers, a baby, someone who believes in only good things or tries to help people...anything that can make a person happy or feel good. To me "Gold" means Summer days when you're a kid. Days are filled with sunshine, blue skies, white…

cholera. “Critics see the poet as a skeptic who regarded nature as an antagonist, … and visionary experience as an illusion.” (Liebman, pag 137) In 1923, Robert Frost wrote a poem entitled Nothing Gold Can Stay. The poem’s title underlines the meaning of the poem which states that life’s most precious things will never stay as they are because at some point in time they change. Robert Frost uses the…

opened. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a poem about the loss of human innocence. "The Outsiders" is a book of feelings, with many unwieldy turns. Robert Frost's poem and S.E Hinton's book have indistinguishable themes. The phrase "Nature's first green is gold' resembles infants being born with innocence. When children are first released to the world, their parents shield them from the dreadful surroundings that make up the earth. Johnny, in The Outsiders, is considered the gangs pet. "If you can…

three stories that stood out the most to me. Those three stories where The Chosen, To KIll a Mockingbird, and a poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. Each story held a different lesson To Kill a Mockingbird taught about innocence, The Chosen expanded on friendship, and Nothing Gold Can Stay taught about beauty. Each Story informed about something beautiful and deep. The lessons from each story can have difficult understandings but help with growth in life. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a…

“Stay gold.” The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost has a few themes that can be related to in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Both the poem and the book have many similarities between their themes and events that take place. A quote that had stood out to me in the poem was, “nothing gold can stay.” This portrays the theme of, “all good must come to an end.” In The Outsiders, PonyBoy Curtis Was forced to cut his long hair off, which he loved to a high content in, order to change his…