Analysis Of Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Nothing Gold Can Stay was written by Robert Frost in 1923. Frost wrote the poem to point out that nothing that is good will stay good forever. The author was trying to explain that everything is always changing. He did not publish his original poem because it had a political point of view. In Frost's original poem he wrote that he believed the world was going to end and because he didn't want to cause a scene by publishing it he didn't.
The style of this poem is narrative because it tells the story of how great things are always changing; it is hard for mother nature to hold the green of spring because the season is changing to winter.
The title of Nothing Gold Can Stay does not have an obvious meaning. Luckily Frost uses metaphors throughout the poem that make the title make much more sense. …show more content…

Robert Frost doesn't use a particular month or season in his poem. Even though he doesn't use a certain month or season in his poem he is referring to spring in his poem.
In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay the characters are Mother Nature and Eden. Robert Frost used personification to bring the characters to life. The author uses the phrase "So Eden sank to grief," to make eden alive in the poem. Frost also uses the phrase "Her early leaf's a flower;" to give Mother Nature a part as a character in the poem.
Although Nothing Gold Can Stay is a great poem there are many stanzas that Robert Frost left out of his published poem. In Frost's original poem there are three stanzas but the published poem only consists of one stanza. The author must have left out the last two stanzas because they had to much of a political point of view. If Frost would have left those last two stanzas in the published poem, it would have a totally different meaning.
Nothing Gold Can Stay doesn't have details such as behavior, dress, or speech to a certain group or event. The poem Nothing Gold Can Stay is based on

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