An Unfolding of Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Robert Frost has very great talent. When he writes his poetry, he knows how to use his word choices. In the poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay it is basically about life from living to death. It also represents blamelessness and honesty. Gold can symbol as a meaning of wealth. Nature can show us many beautiful things throughout the world. However, I do remember the first time I heard of this poem. I was in fifth grade and we were watching the movie, The Outsiders. One of the characters quoted the line Nothing gold can stay. That was the first time I had even heard of this poem. It is necessary Nothing gold can stay because it can give us fictitious pleasure, nothing will remain the same forever, and anything that has feelings or sensation can’t be bought out with …show more content…
In the first line of the poem “Natures first green is gold,” implies that the setting of the poem is Nature. When it states Natures first green we would probably think that it is spring time, but when the first green is gold its meaning is when the sun comes out and sits very high everything shines bright like gold. As stated in line two “her hardest hue to hold” means that nature was gold before it turned green. Nature is made of a female figure and we know that gold is the hardest hue meaning the color for nature is hard to keep().The color of spring which is gold does not stay very long. As you can see, this line is alliteration, and we also have a rhyme couplet which is hold and gold. Next, we see the metaphor in line three “her early leafs a flower,” which takes us back to line one of the poem “Natures first green is gold” means that the first leaf was a flower and the green leaf took the place of the flower in the summer. Flowers go away when summer comes and leaves grow on the tree. You can also see that there is a metaphor between the two, the leaf and
These two passages “There’s Still Gold in These Hills” and “Letter From a Gold Miner” help the reader understand the history and process of gold mining in the US. Both passages give detailed information, specific instructions, and an interesting background about gold mining. These passages use different strategies to help the reader perceive the history and process. These strategies may include using specific dates of when the gold rush took place, information to help the reader picture the setting of where to find gold, and also teaches the process step by step.
The poem states that everything eventually comes to an end and that not even gold can remain unchanged. The poem explains this theme with many metaphors about everything that’s coming to an end. Freeman explains that “Even the poem's rhymes contribute to this sense of inevitability: Nature's gold we (or She) cannot hold; the flower lasts only an hour; the post flower leaf is like Eden's grief; the coming of day means that dawn's gold cannot stay”(2). The poem explains that everything has a natural cycle and that nothing lasts forever. When the poem states “nothing can stay gold”, Frost looks back at the flower and the time of day and implies that it all comes to an end.
Fire, ash, and the “red branch of the slow autumn” are all mentioned in his first thought about how their relationship currently is as if to describe it as dangerous, and out of control. However, it’s contrasted to water at the end of the second stanza through words like “boats,” “sail” and “isles.” Even though there is a wind flame-like element, there is still a water-like calmness because everything reminds him of her. The third symbol of wind is mentioned in the fifth stanza. Wind blows freely and provides descriptive imagery as he explains what would happen if she left the place where roots are. This leads to the fourth symbol of Earth which is depicted through roots and, oater, flowers. Plants contrast with wind because they can’t leave like the wind does. They also symbolize how their love would grow if she stayed and loved him as described in the last
The second stanza moves into the woman recalling her past. The stanza begins with the simile describing the woman to be "as light as a sponge" (line 12) symbolizing her small state as a child in her past. In lines 14&15; this symbolism was prevalent, as the woman described her mother: "She is my mother. She will tell me a story and keep me asleep." The childhood innocence which the woman seemed to remember also obviously symbolized through the objects which she discussed. "I see leaves- leaves that are washed and innocent, leaves that never knew a cellar, born in their own green blood like the hands of mermaids" (lines 17-21). The leaves seemed to symbolize her childhood innocence, and obviously they also showed how the innocence was lost with her growing older.
This poem was about very religious. In this poem she talks about her admiration of God and how she and all humans are humbled by God's creations. She says, "The higher on the glistening sun I gazed. Whose beams was shaded by the leafy tree; The more I looked, the ore I grew amazed, and softly said, 'What glory like to thee?' Soul of this world, this universe's eye, No wonder some made thee a deity; had I not better known, alas, the same had I". This quote means that a tree because of its beauty amazes her. Also, she is saying that the thing responsible for creating such a thing must just as beautiful if not the most beautiful on the earth.
The Tragic Impermanence of Youth in Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay In his poem "Nothing Gold can Stay", Robert Frost names youth and its attributes as invaluable. Using nature as an example, Frost relates the earliest green of a newborn plant to gold; its first leaves are equated with flowers. However, to hold something as fleeting as youth in the highest of esteems is to set one's self up for tragedy. The laws of the Universe cast the glories of youth into an unquestionable state of impermanence.
The ending of this poem is all one large metaphor. When the hickory leaf is mentioned, it symbolizes the speaker; she is the hickory leaf. While the leaf is hanging and green, it symbolizes the speaker being home for the summer. In addition, when the poem talks of the leaf blowing loose, it symbolizes the speaker leaving for
The poem instantly begins with a simile comparing other people with flowers. Similes are then used to add meaning to the rest of the poem. The speaker of the poem compares the “ideal” way of being to being free and unique. The speaker explains why he would rather be a weed than a flower, while using similes to be more descriptive and create a better understanding of his choice. He starts by saying
The general symbolism relating to nature assumes a common base of knowledge from which symbolism can be built. The poem opens with a description of Arkansas: "Old crimes like moss pend/ from poplar trees./ The sullen earth/ is much too/ red for comfort." The first example of general symbolism in this passage is the reference to moss. Moss is considered the base of the forest, the lowest level from which all of the other plants grow. Although moss is vital to a forest, it is often thought of as slimy and dirty. The moss "pend(s) from poplar trees," our second natural symbol. The poplar tree is weak and useless. Nothing can be built from its wood, and it often bends and breaks during storms. The visual image of the moss clinging to the poplar tree shows the slimy moss as "old crimes" and the poplar tree as the frail attempt at growth and a new but weak beginning. The reader gets a clear sense of the struggle toward a new life that is hindered and held back by the old, dependable moss that has been and always will be present. The second part of the passage discusses the "sullen earth" that is "much too red." Red earth can be symbolic in two ...
The first line of the poem gives us an image of a flower. This image makes the poem soft, straight from the start. The flower gives a young image in my head that shows youth. The second line means that you lose your good looks when you grow old. We see another image of a flower in line three and four when it says “And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”
2.1 Proportion of miners with heat related illness Heat is a common problem in the mining industry. Surface miners are frequently exposed to high temperature especially during hot days. Underground miners are vulnerable to heat accumulation as the result of high heat flow from the earth, heat from virgin rock, and additional safety equipment. Heat illness has been suggested to occur along a continuum of ailments because relatively minor symptoms can quickly progress into more serious and life-threatening cases if appropriate actions are not taken to alleviate the condition (8). Its occurrence is from relatively minor heat rash (milliaria rubra) and heat cramp, to the serious heat exhaustion and severe heat stroke, heat illness can present
“All that glitters is not gold ” is a proverb that nearly everyone has heard in their lifetime. Many have probably heard it but have never known what it means. This proverb is saying that things may look great but it is not alway what it seems to be. This can be about many things all the way from a book to a person. Throughout one 's life there is usually a few times where they have had run in with an “All that glitters is not gold” moment. Some of these moments are drastic and others may not phase them one bit but, finding out that something is not what it seems is always slightly disappointing.
The fourth line reads “[a] flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme” (4). The words “flower” and “sweetly” appeal to the sense of smell and lighten the mood of the poem. When a flower is brought up into conversation it immediately brightens the mood. Keats lightened the mood by adding the natural imagery of a happy subject such as a flower. Before these verses were added, the first stanza of the poem was rather dark and did not carry the theme as well as it does after the imagery was added. The imagery not only illuminates the poem but emphasizes the word beautiful in the theme. Keats also uses nature imagery in line five, when he states “what leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape” (5). This adds to the natural imagery in the verse before and lightens the mood even more. The first stanza is written in Keats poem is an introduction to the stories found on the urn and the imagery helps to lighten the dark
He is making a biblical connection by saying the flower is trying to talk to nature, such as our communication with god. Also in the third stanza he says, “The flowers that did in Eden bloom.” He is making a reference to Eden's garden in the
The title of the poem is ironic, because The "White Roses" suggest youth, beauty and innocence. The poem starts with a slew "Outside the Green Velvet sitting room" This suggests luxury and wealth. The use of the colour green is also very indicative, because the colour green suggests spring and fertility and overall health. This is in contrast with the theme of the poem, which is supposed to be one of death, but in actuality, it is.