‘NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY’ BY

ROBERT FROST ANALYSIS

MUHAMMAD SYAFIQ BIN SAADAN
ANISA BINTI AHMAD
AIN NABILA FATIHA BINTI MOHD ZAHAR
MIZAH BINTI MIASIN
THE 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.
INTERPRETATION BY LINE
 Line 1:
 Gold is very valuable. Its refer to youth. All plants and fruits
are green. So youth age is said to be new and valuable.
 Line 2:
 Youth is the hardest moment for thing born hold on to.
 Line 3:
 A flower, being something beautiful. This means that beauty
is spent on the youth age.
 Line 4:
 An hour is short amount of time. Youth and beauty can be held for
but a small length of time.
 Line 5:
 Then the bad comes back and it true self shows
 It dies and fall apart
 Same goes to our life, bad things happens
 Yellows comes back again
 Like our memories, we couldn’t store everything inside. There will
be some being left
 Line 6:
 Eden is the place of happiness. Yet, even Eden was change to great
sadness. This show the message that happiness can change over
grief suddenly without expectation.
 Line 7:
 InGreek mythology, when Oedipus was cofronted by the
Riddle of the Sphinx, “dawn” was compared to youth, while
“day” was compared to middle age. Robert Frost means that
youth will fade just as the sun rises from dawn to day.
 Line 8:
 This is the overall message Robert Frost wanted to tell-
nothing can stay young and beautiful forever.
THEMES
 Beauty
 The use of the word “gold” in this poem shows intelligent
and careful choice. The word “gold” represents both the color
and its namesake, the metallic ore that is valued both for its
aesthetic beauty and financially for its rarity. By using this
word to explain the brief state of beauty through which the
things of the world pass, the poem describes the value of the
plant’s first shoot, of Eden, and of the sunrise. Unlike the
metal ore, though, the examples Frost gives us of golden
beauty are not rare; they are fleeting. Frost’s point is about
the transitory nature of beauty: nothing gold can survive.
PERSONAL RESPONSE
 1..There is a distinctive category of short poem in
English that has never been given a proper name.
Usually between five and twelve lines in length, the form
is briefer than a sonnet but more extensive than an
epigram.
 2.These poems also often have an emblematic quality–
the images acquire a symbolic resonance and suggest
broader meanings.
 3. short poems are difficult to write. Every line, every
image must meaningfully contribute to the whole.
 4.The movement of the poem is both simple and richly
evocative
 5."Nothing Gold Can Stay" explicitly describes identical
moments in three temporal cycles: the daily, the yearly,
and the mythic.
 6. By focusing on a single moment, Frost evokes an
entire day, year, lifetime, and human history.
LITERATURE DEVICES
 Personification - referring to Nature as a female. This is
a long-standing association with the idea of "Mother
Nature" providing sustenance to our world.

 There's a couple, but one would be "Nature's first green

is gold" green isn't gold obviously...he's comparing the
first green of spring with something precious ie//
gold...on a bit deeper level, you could even see "nature's
first green" as a metaphor for youth...transient, precious,
remaining only briefly.
 Alliteration -- "Nature's first green is gold," "Her hardest hue
to hold," and "So dawn goes down to day." Alliteration, like most
sound devices, is used to draw the reader's attention to particular
words or phrases that express the poem's rhetorical argument. Here,
the first example shows that gold is even more prized a color in
nature than green; the second emphasizes how fleeting a color gold
is in nature -- the gold that comes with the sunrise, that is. The third
example echoes that sentiment, showing how quickly sunrise simply
becomes sunlight.

 Allusion -- "So Eden sank to grief" -- This refers to the Garden of

Eden, where Adam and Eve brought death into the world by giving
in to the temptation of the serpent, in the Old Testament.
CRITICISM
 For a short poem it is really difficult to write. Every line
must be perfect to support whole poem. Its contain only
40 words .No word contain more than 2 syllables. Most
of the was monosyllables.
 This poem’s idea seems to state that nothing stays the
same for long, so you better believe it will change. Not
only should you prepare yourself for change, but you
should also realize that you cannot do anything to stop it
from happening. It also seems to believe that all good
things and all bad things will eventually change. Now
Robert Frost may be on to something, but he is still
missing a few key points. As example not all thing
changes example is God. God always stay and never
change.
 Even though Robert Frost may have a problem with
everything good changing, he does not have a problem
with
MORAL VALUES
 We must appreciate our nature.
 We must take a good care our nature

 Even though youth age is fun and enjoying, it not eternal

because everyone will become old
 Happiness will not be everlasting, because sorrow will
come in our lives.