“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Robert Frost was born on March 26‚ 1874. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost‚ Jr. His father was a drinker and a gambler‚ which made growing up hard for Robert. On June 25‚ 1876‚ Robert’s sister Jeannie was born. In 1879‚ Frost entered kindergarten however; he soon came home because of nervous stomach “pain” and did not return back to school that whole year. The next year‚ he tried going to the first grade‚ but dropped out again; the
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Nothing last forever‚ that is the point that Robert Frost is trying to make in “ Nothing Gold Can Stay”. The first and last line have many different interpretations. Gold is synonymous to the good things in life as is in real life. Gold is also seen as wealth or currency. Natures first green is most likely the first strand of grass to grow on earth to show that life evolve or even the first patch of grass after a long cold winter. He compares this to gold. While green and gold are very different
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Dr. Stancil 18 February 2014 Nothing Gold Can Stay This poem dramatizes the very human desire to hold on to what they have deemed “golden.” Frost poem basically goes through the whole cycle of life and he is retelling the history of the world in only four rimmed couplets. He starts in the season of spring but quickly changes into fall which will lead to the end of something beautiful. Frost puts his symbolism to use as well. “Nature’s first green is gold‚ her hardest hue to hold” (1
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In Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay‚” the speaker proclaims that fame and the things we value last only “an hour” (4). Having lost his wife and children which for him were like gold‚ Frost comes to the sobering recognition that “Nothing gold can stay” (8). Frost feels plagued by solitude but struggles with distancing himself. Frost’s two poems “Mending Wall” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both represent Frost’s desire for human connection because of its value. Though it appears that
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“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a short poem written by Robert Frost that expresses how nothing good can last forever. Frost explains this through a use of imagery. Similarly‚ I can compare my experience of going up the Empire State Building to this poem. The sunset from there was an extraordinary view. But like most beautiful and perfect things‚ it won’t last forever. Unfortunately‚ a sunset only lasts for a certain amount of time. I figure that‚ almost every person has experienced such an amazing and
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The theme of the poem‚ “Nothing Gold Can Stay‚” is transience‚ which is things of life change very quickly. The first stanza clearly introduces this theme‚ “Nature’s first green is gold‚ / Her hardest hue to hold” (1-2). The first sentence‚ “Nature’s first green is gold”‚ refers to the first scene of spring‚ which symbolizes the new starting‚ the new life‚ and the new cycle. Because they are new and seraphic‚ the poet describes them as the color of “gold”. Furthermore‚ the second line‚ “Her hardest
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poems‚ and actually I do not really like poetry‚ although they are beautiful and interesting because I often have a hard time to understand tem. In this essay‚ I choose two poems to explicate‚ which is “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”. Through the process of completing this assignment‚ I have a lot of struggles such as the deeper meaning of each line‚ the grammar‚ the balance between two poems‚ and the figurative languages. Furthermore‚ when I am writing the essay‚ I have problems of
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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
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck coordinates back to “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost‚ as Kino discovers the pearl of the world and comes to understand that innocence may not always remain through his experiences of a given opportunity‚ life continuing to move on‚ and the theme that change is inevitable. With a line of blood on his blade‚ Kino wakes up the next morning to the sight of the pearl and the great promises it held. The glisten of the alluring pearl brought “its music of promise and delight
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Frost wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay in 1923‚ five years after WWII. His original poem contained more ideas about the world wars. He felt the need to change it because the first version contained a lot about the world ending and it scared people. I feel like the poem would be considered a narrative poem because it kind of tells a story. The title’s meaning is pretty obvious to me.The title is a reference to the fact that people grow and change. When a person is young they are considered gold. It could
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