Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this poem. Reread this couplet from the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. How does the image in these lines help convey the idea that the best things in life should be appreciated while there's time? The beauty of dawn is short like the happy times in life that people should value. Dawn’s glory is the joy in life that lasts a short time compared to the expanse of a hard life. The changing colors of the sky at dawn represent the changing emotions of life. Dawn's brilliance fades and becomes the harsh reality of everyday living.

Answer 1

“The beauty of dawn is short like the happy times in life that people should value”

Step-by-step explanation:

The line "So dawn goes down to the day. Nothing gold can stay" refers to the need we have to enjoy the good times in life as they go too fast. That is, this line states that we often let it be that it is really important and beautiful to go unnoticed, because we assume that we will have time to appreciate it on another occasion, however, nothing is eternal, time goes by very fast, and we have no guarantee how long things will continue there to be observed. So we should enjoy it while we still have it.

In other words, the line states that the beauty of dawn is short as the happy moments in life that people should value.

Answer 2

The correct option is:

“The beauty of dawn is short like the happy times in life that people should value”

..”So dawn goes down to day..”

Many times in life people take everything for granted. The sunlight, the sunrise, the color of the sunset, life itself, are wonders of the world that we see so regularly that is difficult to appreciate the beauty in many of them.

..”Nothing gold can stay”

It is said that life and time can be compared with the blink of an eye, it happens extremely fast. We cannot hold forever the moments, we need to cherish them, appreciated them and stored them in our minds and hearts. The colors of the rainbow after a terrible storm just remind us that nature is beautiful and wonderful and That you need to enjoy those few minutes when it appears above in the sky, because it won´t last long.

Happiness, sadness, laughter and tears, they just happen, none of them stay forever.