Robert Frost's Poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost is one of the greatest poets of our time, and “Nothing gold can stay” is one of the many great poems I love by him. “Nothing gold can stay” holds a special place in my heart due to it being my very last show in the Laker Marching band. Of my three years of being in Color-guard I learned to embody music, books, and poems. Spending hundreds of hours on a show based off of this poem, it brought the meaning of it to me to new heights. At the end of the year I did not know it would be my last, but I am certainly happy with how I can compare my marching career to my last performance, the line “nothing gold can stay” resonates with me leaving the band and all the good things I had going for myself within the Color-guard, but that it was okay to leave because it was for my own good. …show more content…
“So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay.” reminds me of the end of my second year. My first year was 2014, the first year we won state finals. I remember seeing the weight of pushing ourselves visibly lift off our shoulders. It was most definitely the best year of my life, we were golden, but like the poem, nothing gold can stay forever. “ So Eden sank to grief” was the following year where we place third in state finals, which to the group who had recently won the year before, was very disheartening. Then our next year, we placed second in our show “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. Even though we did not win state, the meaning of the poem helped us all throughout the year, we were not discouraged by our loses, but also, humble with our wins, which i believe mended the gap between the 2014 and 2015 groups. Many of the older band students, including myself, blamed the younger students for our loses, even though it was even more our blame for basking in our previous win and not worrying about the show we were
Robert Frost is one of the greatest poets of our time, and “Nothing gold can stay” is one of the many great poems I love by him. “Nothing gold can stay” holds a special place in my heart due to it being my very last show in the Laker Marching band. Of my three years of being in Color-guard I learned to embody music, books, and poems. Spending hundreds of hours on a show based off of this poem, it brought the meaning of it to me to new heights. At the end of the year I did not know it would be my last, but I am certainly happy with how I can compare my marching career to my last performance, the line “nothing gold can stay” resonates with me leaving the band and all the good things I had going for myself within the Color-guard, but that it was okay to leave because it was for my own good. …show more content…
“So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay.” reminds me of the end of my second year. My first year was 2014, the first year we won state finals. I remember seeing the weight of pushing ourselves visibly lift off our shoulders. It was most definitely the best year of my life, we were golden, but like the poem, nothing gold can stay forever. “ So Eden sank to grief” was the following year where we place third in state finals, which to the group who had recently won the year before, was very disheartening. Then our next year, we placed second in our show “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. Even though we did not win state, the meaning of the poem helped us all throughout the year, we were not discouraged by our loses, but also, humble with our wins, which i believe mended the gap between the 2014 and 2015 groups. Many of the older band students, including myself, blamed the younger students for our loses, even though it was even more our blame for basking in our previous win and not worrying about the show we were