Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)
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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is one of Robert Frost's most famous poems. Written in 1923 , this poem was published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in a collection called 'New Hampshire' (1923), which featured other notable poems of Frost such as Two Look at Two and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Some say the poem helped Frost to win a Pulitzer Prize[citation needed]. Only eight lines long, this poem is still considered one of Frost's best. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is also featured in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and its film adaptation.
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[edit] Poem
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.
[edit] Meaning
The poem means that anything that is pure is eventually lost, and that everything that is beautiful must eventually fade away. It is as well a different, deeper way of showing the change of the seasons
[edit] Stylistic devices
The relatively simple rhyme scheme is as follows:
AABBCCDD
This means the 1st 2 lines rhyme, the 2nd 2 lines rhyme, the 3rd 2 lines rhyme, and the 4th 2 lines rhyme.
The poem's meter is Iambic trimeter.
[edit] See also
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