What does "Nothing Gold Can Stay" mean?
it is a poem about time. when you are a kid you are gold, you beleive and have fun and you imagine. you look at life diffrently. it is natures hardest hue to hold, time, you grow up into society. her early leafs a flower, kids, but only so an hour, only for some time, then leaf subsides to leaf, you become like an adult, you stop beleiving and you see the world a little diffrently, so Eden sank to greif- Eden means hevean . so dawn goes down to day- time has passed and you are no longer gold. nothing gold can stay. get it?
What is the tone/mood for the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?
I've done a study on this poem before, and it's obviously about how everything good in life has to fade away eventually, so you might say that the tone is sort of a sad or disappointed, but also, it also has a sort of all-knowing or wise feel to it, like you realize that something precious is gone, and you'll miss it.....but also that there are going to be many other moments that will be equally special. It's kind of a hard one in terms of figuring out the attitude of it. Hope that helps a little. :]
THE OUTSIDERS nothing gold can stay!!...?
The "gold" is not in the meaning of the metal. It means that nothing can stay as it started off. 1) Youth can be compared to "gold" by they are beautifull when they are young but they become "rusty" when they get older. 2) "Gold" can be compared to flowers in that they are vibrant colors when they are young but as the get older they become duller. 3) Another metaphor may be "Vibrant" or "Bright". I had to memorized this poem for my english class earlier this year and everyday the teacher disscussed the meaning behind the poem so you may hold that against me and give the points to someone else, and I don't blame you for that. Nothing Gold Can Stay.By: Robert Frost Natures first green is gold Her hardest here to hold Her early leafs a flower But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief Dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay.
Archetypes in the poem nothing gold can stay?
im so lost and im writing an essay for school on it. 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. What are the archetypes in it? are they the colors like green and gold in the first line? Could they also be like hue and flower and hour and leaf? Please help im so lost! Thank you sooo much! =)
Syllable count in Nothing gold can stay?
So I know how to count syllables, but I can't seem to get my answer matched up to my teacher's. I don't really remember what she said, but it's definitely not what I'm coming up with. Can someone tell me what the count is? This is what I'm getting... "Nothing Gold Can Stay" - Robert Frost Nature's first green is gold, (6 syllables) Her hardest hue to hold. (6 syllables) Her early leaf's a flower; (7 syllables) But only so an hour. (6 syllables) Then leaf subsides to leaf. (6 syllables) So Eden sank to grief, (6 syllables) So dawn goes down to day. (6 syllables) Nothing gold can stay. (5 syllables) She said that as the poem turns to the beauty disintegrating, the syllables in the poem seem to lessen. Is this true? Did I count the syllables correctly? Because I think it's different than what she came up with.
What is the meter and rhythm for "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?
Thanks for the help. I have the following: The first foot of the poem is trochaic. The second and third foot of the first line are iambic. It remains iambic for the next line. The first two feet of the third line are iambic, but "a flower" breaks into amphibrach. The fourth and fifth lines go back to iambic trimeter. In the sixth line, I marked that "So" was unstressed while Eden is a spondee. "Sank to grief" is amphimacer. The seventh line is iambic trimeter. The first foot of the last line is amphimacer with iambic foot following. This seems to work.
What does the quote, "Nothing gold can stay" mean.?
Well, what do you think it means? There are many close readings of Frost’s poem around, Ferguson’s from 1973 is still very good, on the felix culpa or “fortunate fall” from grace that places us into this world of sin, and human beauty — you get to experience love, or beauty, or “gold,” but/and you get to experience losing it as well. We get free will, and, we get impermanence. Highs and lows both.So one way is to read it as a version of sic transit gloria mundi or Memento mori: whatever you experience as wealth or power or beauty or whatever in this world, that must pass. You never get to “stay gold.” Gold is what vanishes.You could also ask yourself the question, well, what does remain? In a world of impermanence (and beauty), where beauty or joy is to some extent defined by its inevitable end, then what do you get to hang on to? What is permanent — is it a religious sense of the permanent possibility of moments of grace, or is it an aesthetic one of the always present possibility of beauty, or a personal one of possible friendships even if each must end with the inevitable tensions of two people growing and necessarily growing apart?Or another way to say this is, what remains always, is Frost’s ability to consider what is beautiful and what is lost forever, or, an adult’s ability to look back onto a childhood friendship with both joy and regret. The poem remains. The story remains. The memory remains. But the actual “gold” — the love, the beauty, the moment of joy — is necessarily lost.Note also that it’s also ironic, or paradoxical — literal gold, the element, stays around forever, untarnished by oxygen. Melted, reshaped, reused. Gold is what stays (bronze, and fabric, and wood, is what vanishes). The color gold, however, as experienced in the sunrise, the sunset, the first spring buds of the birch, that is transient. So the claim that gold can’t stay creates a nice push into that tension.
In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, what does "leaf subsides to leaf" mean?
The original question is:In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, what does "leaf subsides to leaf" mean?My answer:I think that the poem means that Nature’s beauty resides in its constant changes and, therefore, in its transient manifestations.When Nature settles down into a permanent or long-lasting state, or starts repeating itself (“leaf subsides to leaf”), then it loses part of its beauty.