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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first time writing an essay about explicating 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‚
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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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“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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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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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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Something I consider ‘’gold’’ is my grandpa‚ because he was always there for me and when I was down he gave me a big hug and helped me through the rough times I had. I lost my grandpa because of an Illness he had‚ he had a bad illness where he was in the hospital for most of the time and that made me very sad. I tried to hold onto him by spending a lot of time with him and taking care of him‚ because he liked it when I was there spending time with him. I was unsuccessful because my grandpa passed
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manipulating certain elements in a literary work such as imagery and syntax‚ an author manages to add emphasis and meaning to his/her work as a whole. These elements if used properly‚ will both convey the message the author wants to portray in his/her work‚ while maintaining to keep the attention of their readers. Robert Frost in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (Frost‚ "Nothing Gold Can Stay")‚ and “Meeting and Passing” (Frost‚ Meeting and Passing) are only two examples of the many literary works that have
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Stay Gold By: Julie Pratt In the end of the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton‚ Johnny Cade’s last words to Ponyboy were “Stay gold‚ Ponyboy. Stay gold…” (pg 148). One way to interpret Johnny’s words would be that he meant for Ponyboy to keep his innocence. Another way would be to say that Johnny meant for Ponyboy to stay true to who he was. It is also possible that he meant for Ponyboy to continue to be a generally good person‚ pure of heart and mind. Johnny’s last words to Ponyboy had a triple
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The poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Dust of Snow both by Robert Frost show the relationship between Mother Nature and human nature. Although the poems share the same theme‚ they have similar perspective‚ form‚ and diction‚ the poems have different styles. Both the poems show some degree of truth in human nature through Mother Nature‚ but when comparing and contrasting them‚ there are many more connections that are exposed. In Nothing Gold Can Stay Frost shows the loss of innocence between two figures
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