Robert Frost wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay in 1923, just 5 years after World War 1. Although World War 2 had not started yet, Frost had a looming feeling that the world was going to end and created a poem from his feelings. I think that the style of this poem is confessional because it relates to the memories that Frost had during the time that he wrote this poem. It could also be a narrative because it tells the story of life and death. Because the title Nothing Gold Can Stay does not convey the meaning of the poem, the title's meaning is not obvious. A repetition that occurs in the poem is the reference to nature all throughout the poem. Though there is not any specific words that are repeated, the poem does refer to "her" a lot; her being …show more content…
Frost chose to leave out the original part of the poem that said the world would end because he knew people would go into panic due to his words. Because, he was a highly recognized political man, he knew that people would listen to his theory on the world ending. While there is no specific culture talked about in Nothing Gold Can Stay, nature is a recurring theme throughout the text. Because of World War 2 starting to brew during this time, I know that Frost wrote this poem based on the reality of the world possibly ending versus a fantasy story. Nothing Gold Can Stay has a nostalgic mood to it because it reminds you of when things were beautiful and new when in present times it may be old and gone. Although there are many themes throughout this poem, one that I liked was the idea that everything will die at one point or another so we should treasure what we have while we can. The rhyme scheme of this poem is AABB. I think that he chose to do this rhyme pattern because it makes the poem roll right of the tongue. Even though there are many uses of senses in this poem, sight is the most important in this
The poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Abandoned Farmhouse have many things in common. Some of those things are that both of their themes are change. I know this because in the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay it has the words “Then leaf subsides to leaf” and the words” So dawn goes down to day”. This means that the current day is ending and a new day is beginning. I know the poem Abandoned Farmhouse has change because the writer says there was a lot of trash in their yard.
For example, the phrases in the second stanza, “FAMOUS streets” and “FAMOUS corners” represent a clear pattern of repetition in the poem. I believe that the author wants to indicate that the protagonist came from a small town outside of Toronto, where he was not exposed to fame. Another example of repetition that contributes to the literal meaning is the eighth stanza, “So that RAIN came along. So that WIND came along. So that HAIL came along.
Silence is golden. Elie Wiesel states that “being silent means being complicit”. But that’s not true. Because there are plenty of stories where people go above and beyond the call of duty and end up making the situation worse. For example, when a group of hoodlums had approached me.
In the show, “Return to the Giant Pool of Money,” Ira Glass and Adam Davidson discusses the details of what happened during the housing crisis that occurred in the mid to late 2000s. We hear the stories of people from both sides who were negatively impacted by the collapse of the housing market. They go in depth about how easy it was for people to take out mortgage loans and how they were the big reason why we went into an economic recession (Chapter 6, pg.181). A big reason for the housing crisis was the amount of loans given to people who couldn’t afford them. Before the crisis occurred, more people were able to take out mortgage loans than ever before.
Did you ever know how to carefully exam the elements in a piece of literatures and comparing them together? Well here is one that is with a book called “The Outsiders” and a poem called “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” The Outsiders talks about a teen gang that gets in a fight and ends in a death of a social member. Some of the teens get into content with their violent lives. Some of the teen gang dies.
I love all the metaphors he made in this poem such as the ladder to heaven (apple-picking requires a level which Robert Frost was referring it to the ladder to heaven) and the seasonal interpretation (winter is death and spring is rebirth) that connects to the natural process of decaying and
The basic detail of this poem are that things do not stay beautiful forever no matter what they are, meaning he left out that his message was the world was going end because he knew it might freak some people out. Nothing Gold Can Stay expresses any cultural details such as the behavior, dress or speech habits of a particular group or a historical period or event. Nothing Gold Can Stay is an example of reality.
Through his writing piece “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Robert Frost focuses on nature but creates a hidden meaning with metaphor, about how perfection does not last in human nature. If you took this poem literally about nature, it’s talking about how in spring, nature produces beautiful flowers which are valued highly just as gold is. This is nature's “hardest hue to hold” and subsides down to green leaves, which are not viewed as highly as the flowers. In the last two lines he wraps it up by saying spring turns into summer and that spring’s first green can not stay. This whole poem could also be taken as a metaphor for human nature and how perfection can not stay.
My paraphrase of the poem is: Alone in the woods at night, I look up at the beautiful stars. Countless amounts that will not go away, they stand still in the sky, and I am extremely lucky to see all of this beauty. There is lots of figurative language and sound devices in this poem. The figurative language
Repetition in poetry is repeating a word or phrases to invoke feeling or get a point across to a reader. In The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson uses this literary device multiple times for different reasons. In the beginning of the poem, he repeats a phrase to describe the diligence of the brigade. Throughout, an expression is used over and over to symbolize the camaraderie within the troop. Another example of a saying repeated throughout the poem shows where the group is going, and what the place will become.
Nothing Gold Could Stay by Robert Frost is a poem about how valuable childhood is. This poem describes turning from childhood to adulthood and how youth is special and precious because of how it ends so quickly. The four lines of the poem represent childhood and the values of it. In the first line, “Nature’s first green is gold”, green means fresh, new and little experience, which refers to childhood, and gold means incredible, special, significant and valuable, so this line states childhood is amazing and precious. In the second line of the poem, “Her hardest hue to hold”, “her” means nature and how in nature, green appears and passes quickly, like childhood.
Which is that beauty comes from within. His purpose is teaching the poet that in order to create true and inspiring art he must look deep inside of himself. He starts to develop this idea with an extended metaphor as he explains that even if you have come to your lowest point in life “you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories” (3) to inspire you and give you life again. This statement shows that even when you have been beat up and are lost you still have your priceless jewels of your past. Memories are something so beautiful and priceless that can not be taken away from you, because it comes from within you.
Furthermore, the poet uses rhyme scheme to display a symbolic message of unity, by initiating there are more people who are suffering through similar situations, yet remain as one. Gunn uses the rhyme scheme of ABAB in the first two stanzas and no particular pattern for stanzas three and four. The poet’s first and second stanzas focus mainly on depicting a painful illness of a friend, which is why these stanzas hold negative connotations. These stanzas also focus on the visitant and the friend who is currently dying. Stanza three has no particular pattern, yet it is used to acknowledge the seriousness of a disease.
The words "my father" are etched into the readers' minds with the use of repetition. Repetition plays the role of psychology as it repeats certain words or phrases to engrave questions and ideas into the readers' minds. Similarly, another instance of repetition can be found in the final lines of the poem, from line 42 - 44.
Much like the first stanza, repetition is applied to create an even stronger emotional approach where the theme love is being symbolised as waves like the ocean. “Love comes in waves like the ocean, a sickness which goes on and on, a hollow cave in the head, filling and pounding, a kicked ear.” Repetition is evident in this sentence, in the first stanza, time is being compared to sickness that comes in waves, “Time comes in waves here, a sickness, one day after the other rolling on”, imitating this quote, love is being compared to an ocean of sickness. the “A hollow cave in the head” gives off a