Question

What is the theme of the poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay?”

Give at least 2 examples of evidence to support your answer. Be sure to explain how the evidence supports the chosen theme.

“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963
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.

Answer 1

The theme is impermanence this is a poem about how no matter how beautiful anything is it can’t never last forever the beauty of nature (your text evidence) in this poem frost emphasis the beauty of nature through his descriptions of the plants and flowers The speaker describes natures first green as being out which symbolizes value, prosperity and beautiful at the end of the poem the speaker then states that nothing gold can stay, which symbolizes the fact that nothing valuable last forever, the speaker points to Eden as an example of something beautiful that cannot last forever

Answer 2

Robert Frost's 1923 poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' explores the idea that nothing good or precious can last forever by using nature and The Garden of Eden as metaphors for cycles of life and death and the loss of innocence

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