Nothing Gold Can Stay

human will see many beautiful things, go through many precious moments, and most importantly, they will have to make many decisions, which they can not guess where they will go or what they will get with that decision. Life is a difficult journey that is hard to explain. However, Robert Frost, a famous American poet, wrote two poems, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”, to describe this life journey. In the poems, Frost uses many metaphors and figurative languages to make these…

obert Frost's poem '' Nothing Gold can Stay" can make you feel a bundle of emotions like joy, grief, and sadness. The novel The Outsiders is about a gang full of boys that go through crazy adventures and changes, starring the main character Ponyboy Curtis. Robert Frost's poem has many themes that the novel The Outsiders portrays. One line of the poem is "So eden sank to grief". That line means your innocence has been lost, you are no longer that goody goody in the bunch. Part of losing…

Robert Frost was a professor, a American poet and a four time Pulitzer prize winner who is responsible for many popular works including “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, After Apple-Picking”, and “The Road Not Taken”. Frost is known for publishing many books made up of collections of poems and one of his most well-known works “The Road Not Taken”, is one of Frost’s most familiar poems. In the poem, Robert Frost looks at the choices one has in life, how one decides which choices are better, and what are…

would end because of the next great war that was bound to happen. since this poem is a story about life, it is a narrative. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" the title expresses an opinion that nothing good can stay very long. although there is no concrete repetition, he says her and gold a lot as robert frost is trying to emphasise his fear of her (mother earth) ending as the gold can't stay It doesn't specify a date but it is set in the beginning of spring when the leaves start to come back and gain…

Ponyboy Curtis is a 14 year old boy in the book The Outsiders. The story takes place in the 1960s and the main plot is the differences and rivalry between the south side (soc’s) and the North side (greasers) of the city. If you are born a soc you are blessed with wealth, nice cars, good schooling, and a future in society. But if you are a greaser you are condemned to a life of being poor, having to live of stealing working lousy jobs. Ponyboy and his two older brothers Sodapop and Darryl are…

People tend to keep company with one another based on opinions and qualities that they share. That being said, no two people can be entirely identical. This is certainly the case with Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston from the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Johnny and Dally are in similar situations due to them both having neglectful parents and placing minimal value on their lives. Despite their similarities, Dally and Johnny have very different opinions on how Ponyboy should be and on the…

Freedom, it's what everyone longs for. Who can measure the strength and power of freedom compared to the pain of being enslaved, no one can, because joy will always trump agony. There's a certain ambiance that comes along with freedom that not one person can explain indefinitely. It brings such a joy to a person, especially one who has been enslaved and not likely to be released from something so terrible. In the novel “Nothing Gold Can Stay” A prisoner sent to fetch water for his…

“Greasers can 't walk alone too much or they 'll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream "Greaser!" at them which doesn 't make you feel too hot if you know what I mean. ” ~ The Outsiders, Chapter 1, Page 2. This quote which kicks off the book helps to bring together what the narrator and main character Ponyboy character is as a Greaser. The Greasers are what the East side poor kids of Tulsa, Oklahoma with their slicked back long greased hair and switch blades, are called, kind of like…

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a realistic fiction novel. This book is about Ponyboy, a fourteen year old boy, who is being raised by his older brother because his parents have passed away. Ponyboy and his brothers are members of a gang called the Greasers who are in constant conflict with the Socs, an opposing gang. The greasers proved to be the heroes in the story, not the beloved Socs, the three greasers who showed the most heroism are: Ponyboy, Darry and Johnny. Ponyboy has shows multiple…

things become very difficult in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Review: with the help of S.E. Hinton, the author herself, Francis Ford Coppola captures this dramatic, thrilling movie almost perfectly. The song “Stay Gold” by Steve Wonder which begins and ends the movie was a great choice because Johnny quoted “Stay Gold, Ponyboy” on his deathbed. The actors’ images were captured exceptionally. The greasers’ hair looked just as I had imagined it by the description in the book, especially Ponyboy. Another…