Nothing Gold Can Stay

The author Robert Frost has an excellent gift for putting words into finished works of poetry. His poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is no exception. Although short, it delivers a deep point and meaning to the reader. Life is such a delicate thing and most of it is taken for granted. The most beautiful, special time in life generally passes in what could be a blink of an eyes. Even in such a short poem, he describes what would seem to be an eternity or a life time in eight simple lines. Change is inevitable and will surely happen to all living beings. This is the main point of this poem and it is shown constantly throughout the eight lines. Good things do not last. Life may seem perfect when every situation is going well, but in a split second, things can change. Things will not always stay the same way forever. Everything living is beautiful but everything will eventually die. Many times in a person’s life, there will be depression and sadness, the good times will end. Even though the good times come to an end, there will be more great
The poem places us in the middle of the golden glow of spring sunrise while reminding us that such beauty is only temporary. The speaker uses figurative languages, like personification and metaphors, to talk about nature. That means that what the speaker is talking about can be broadened to figuratively say something about human beings. In the first line, he starts off talking about nature “green is gold” which is a metaphor. This makes us know that spring and nature is usually associated with the color green. But he also twists it to show that spring is actually more gold than green. Line two, uses personification to talk about nature. It refers to nature as “her” and says she finding it difficult to hold onto her gold. Line 6 uses biblical allusion to refer to nature. The Garden of Eden was a beautiful perfect natural