Analysis Of Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay was written by Robert Frost in 1923. This poem was written to reflect the political view of the world ending from the eyes of Robert Frost himself. He lived in the United States. In the 20's, many theorists and citizens believed that the world was going to end, including Robert Frost, the author. This poem was written in English and appears in English. Nothing Gold Can Stay was published to the Yale Review in October of 1923. It was later published in the New Hampshire collection, which won Robert Frost a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry that next year in 1924.
Nothing Gold Can Stay is a two stanza, eight line poem about nature. It uses metaphors to describe political views under a facade of natural topics.
The title of the poem

Eden is a name from the Christian Bible. The Garden of Eden is where Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit. Eden can also be a name for Mother Nature, in context of the poem.
The poet uses nature as a metaphor to hide his political views of the world ending from the reader.
Nothing Gold Can Stay implies a religious view as Robert Frost mentions Eden, as in the Garden of Eden from the Christian Bible.
This poem is more fantasy than reality, because while nature is real, many of the things are not possible. Eden is not a real person, so she can not sink to grief, or feel emotion.
The mood is calm, as the imagery reminds the reader of a garden in the light of sunset. The tone is similar to one of a diary or journal. The poem states the observations of a garden and uses them in metaphors and figurative language.
The theme of Nothing Gold Can Stay is mortality and the truth of how nothing is really permanent. With the line, "But only so an hour,", it reminds the reader of autumn or even spring, when the leaves change colors and fall off the trees. Robert Frost uses nature as a metaphor for the world. When nature's leaves fall off and die, in the context of the poem's figurative language, it represents Frost's view on the world

The work reads slowly with a steady pace that can be potentially be calming to some readers.
Robert Frost did not use a noticeable amount of imagery towards the senses in Nothing Gold Can Stay. The reader would most likely use the imagery brought by their own imagination and how certain words like "leaves" or "flower" remind them of the crunching of leaves in the fall or the bright colors of flowers starting to bloom in the spring.
The imagery used is not obvious in the first stanza. In the second stanza, the line "so Eden sank to grief" can help the reader visualize a garden filled with many plants that are wilting from the fall.
Nothing Gold Can Stay uses an AABB repetition pattern.This means that the last sounds of the words in the stanzas use similar sounding letters for the rhyme