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Nothing Gold Can Stay Analysis
I think that the two poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and the poem Abandon Farmhouse have many similarities and many differences. I think the similarities they have in common is that they are both about grief. Also Not one is about happiness. I also think that the poems are both about change. The authors both put imagery in the poems too. They are about life, and in my opinion and what comes with life is loss.

What is different about the two poems that I think Nothing Gold Can Stay is a poem about nature and in Abandoned Farmhouse is about people. Abandoned Farmhouse also has personification while Nothing Gold Can Stay has no personification at all I know that because it says, “They had a child said the sandbox made from a tractor tire. Abandoned
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