Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

Analysis /Critique

Nothing Gold Can Stay


We believe this lyric poem means when you are born and are a child you are gold or innocent and pure. You are unaware of the world as a child. Your childhood is the hardest thing to hold on to. Childhood is the first part of your life. But it only last a while. As you grow up you loose that innocence, you learn to be strong and confident. You face hardships throughout your life. You begin to loose the golden innocence of your childhood and build a layer of confidence and security as you go into adulthood to fight and protect yourself from the world.


Robert Frost uses nature to argue that when you are born your gold and slowly as you get older the gold fades. Sooner or later you're going to die. So don't take life for granted. Like the poem says "So dawn goes down to day" means when your gold your a kid and everything is new to you. That is dawn. when you get older you lose your innocence and that is day; when nothing is new anymore. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost shows through this poem that he believes that: Youth doesn't last forever. Also it means to cherish your life because one day we will die. We choose this poem over the thousands upon thousands of choices because we also believe that life is gold and it is worth to cherish.


This poem includes many literary terms such as alliteration, repetition, consonance, mood, figure of speech and many more.

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