...poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Robert Frost uses symbolism to develop the passage. Frost uses many symbols in the poem such as gold. The gold is used to symbolize the richness, valuableness, and worthiness of nature. In the first stanza, “Nature’s first green is gold” means that spring, which is considered “nature’s first green” is very precious and valuable to people because in spring everything grows, turns green, and becomes new again. Another example from the poem that shows gold as a symbol is “Nothing gold can stay.” The speaker means that the newness and youth of nature does not stay forever. This is quite disappointing and bittersweet because the speaker is implying that everything of value in life somehow fades away eventually. After spring and summer are over, fall and winter return once more. Winter, which is the opposite of spring and summer, represents death and gloominess. Finally, Eden is a symbol that Frost uses to develop and establish the passage further. In the sixth and seventh line of the poem, the speaker says “So Eden sank to grief/ so dawn goes down to day”. Eden symbolizes the Garden of Eden where everything is perfect and pleasant for Adam and Eve until they eat an apple off of the only tree they weren’t supposed to. This also shows that nothing pleasant and/or perfect in life will stay forever, just like the “gold” in life. Robert Frost uses symbols in this poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to represent how many precious things in life don’t stay in one’s...
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..."Nothing Gold Can Stay" When in the church on Jay Mountain, Ponyboy recites the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" written by Robert Frost. He remembered the poem, but couldn't recall the meaning of it. Johnny finds out the meaning of the poem at the end of the book, and tells everyone in his gang the meaning and how it connects to the greaser gang. Even though Robert Frost talks about plants in this poem, its figurative meaning is about babies and how they lose their innocence over time. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” symbolizes pony in the outsiders. The first line in the poem is “Natures First Green Is Gold” . This means that when the plants start budding, they are very beautiful. Ponys life can be compared to “natures first green is gold”. Pony is the...
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...could not just stand there and watch this go down so he stabbed Bob (Hinton 56). It was a very inconceivable of him since he was like a "...puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers..." (Hinton 11). Johnny coming along has made him become less timid. He could be considered brave for standing up to Pony, even though in result he has become a murderer. Now Pony and Johnny had a bigger rationale to be running: They were wanted for murder. Johnny was never the one anticipated to be a killer. If anyone, it would have been Dally (the toughest of the gang). Johnny had never done anything so criminal in his life until the moment his switch blade went into Bob. It's funny how one action someone chooses to make can change someone tremendously. It's like how if someone touches a stalagmite, it stops growing; One accident stops the growth. There is no going back after an action is made. When Johnny was deciding what to do about Bob he kills him, which prevents Johnny and Pony from moving forward with their normal lives and having to start living a brand new one. Pony and Johnny end up living in a church after the murder. They both had to chop off their hair to change their appearance. Long, greasy hair is a valuable feature to a greaser so Johhny and Ponyboy didn't want to lose it. First the murdering, and now the hair. They never expected any of this to happen from running away. Johhny could have been hanging out with the gang, but instead he had to...
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...01/09 Nothing Gold Can Stay Why do things change? In “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, the theme of the book is that “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (77). This means that things do not last forever. Johnny, Ponyboy, and Randy all learn this lesson in different ways. Johnny learns “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (77) in many ways. First, it states, “I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them,” (78). When Johnny took the time to think about colors like Ponyboy had mentioned, he realized that “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (77). The colors of the clouds were seldom golden, and when it was it lasted only but a short period of time. Before Ponyboy showed Johnny the good he saw in sunsets and colors, he was just another greaser boy who lived by the stereotype. After Pony pointed out to Johnny all the interesting things he thinks about, not only was their relationship stronger, but Johnny’s thoughts were too. Next, it...
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...Depending on what age you are, you might've read a book called "The Outsiders". If you haven't "The Outsiders" is a book about the rivalry between the Greasers and the Socs, but mostly focuses on Ponyboy, who is the main character, and his choices throughout his life. In this essay, we're going to talk about how Ponyboys relationships change throughout the story. The first major change in a relationship is when Ponyboy comes home late after he accidentally fell asleep at the "lot" Once he comes home his brother Darry yells at him. (Page 43-44) "It sounded dumb, even to me, when I stammered, "I... I went to sleep in the lot..." "You what?" He was shouting, and Sodapop sat up and rubbed his eyes. " "He should never yell at Soda. Nobody should ever holler at my brother. I exploded. "You don't yell at him!" I shouted. Darry wheeled around and slapped me so hard that it knocked me against the door." "Suddenly it was deathly quiet. We had all frozen. Nobody in my family had ever hit me. Nobody. Soda was wide-eyed. Darry looked at the palm of his hand where it had turned red and then looked back at me. His eyes were huge. "Ponyboy..." The second main change in a relationship is between Pony and Johnny. After Johnny kills bob to save his friend, (Page 49) "I killed him," he said slowly. "I killed that boy." they decide to go into hiding, and so they did. (Page 50) "We'll need money. And maybe a gun. And a plan." They stayed in the church for a little under a week, but ponyboy admitted...
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...The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers — Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 — have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. Pony and Soda are allowed to stay under Darry's guardianship as long as they all behave themselves. The boys are greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids." The story opens with Pony walking home alone from a movie; he is stopped by a gang of Socs who proceed to beat him up. The Socs badly injure and threaten to kill Ponyboy; however, some of his gang happen upon the scene and run the Socs off. This incident sets the tone for the rest of the story, because the event tells the reader that a fight between these two groups needs no provocation. The next night Pony and two other gang members, Dallas Winston (Dally) and Johnny Cade, go to a drive-in movie. There they meet Sherri (Cherry) Valance and her friend Marcia, who have left their Soc boyfriends at the drive-in because the boys were drinking. Dally leaves after giving the girls a hard time, but another greaser, Two-Bit Mathews, joins Pony and Johnny. The boys offer to walk the girls home after the movie, but along the way, the girls' boyfriends...
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...Name: Isabela Schmalz Advisory: Uyaguari Insider and Outsider? I know all of you must be asking, how can someone be both an insider and outsider? In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton many of the characters are both insiders and outsiders throughout the book. The genre of this book is realistic fiction because it was similar to what happened to S.E Hinton in high school, but the characters and story are fake. This book’s setting is based on Hinton’s hometown Tulsa Oklahoma. In this novel there are two different gangs of people, Socs and Greasers. They both have a rivalry and fight all the time. The book is through the eyes of the main character Ponyboy, whose parents died and is being raised by his two older brothers. Some of the main characters...
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...In Atwood’s poem she describes a young refugee girl entering Canada and her first thoughts. The speaker hints of feeling different and finding the country overwhelming. She states “The moving water will not show me my reflection.” (l. 16-17) expressing how she feels out-of-place. The author uses the girls situation to symbolize how change is difficult. The speaker cannot literally and figuratively see herself in Canada. Literally in the water and figuratively in Canada. Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay is a poem that touches on how everything is changing. The speaker uses the changing of a leaf to symbolize how nothing is constant by stating “then leaf subsides to leaf.” (l. 5) Therefore, alluding to how nature is ever-changing, much like life is ever-changing. The speaker denotes the leaf as an exciting experience in life; he implies how exiting experience is as beautiful as flowers, but don’t last long, much like the...
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...In “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, it is obvious that Robert Frost talks about so much more than some flowers and leaves. In just eight simple lines, he beautifully describes what would seem like an eternity or an entire lifetime. Pulling off a restatement of a classic theme, Frost (more or less) speaks up about how gold is too hard of a hue to hold for long, the theme of this poem is simple: nothing good and valuable lasts forever, but it can still change for the better In the first line, “Nature's first green is gold,” Frost talks about the effervescent of nature’s greens (trees, grass, etc.) turn into gold. A metaphor nevertheless, it is clear that gold the most precious thing, the item of most value. “Her hardest hue to hold,” shows a rich analogy...
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...two children to suicide and mental illness. Frosts tendency to write about nature was related to the land of New England, which many thought “was the heart of America” (Norton). Nature was a notable part of Frost’s poems; however, he did not see nature as this supreme being, rather he saw nature as “no expression, nothing to express” (Norton). Cleanth Brooks, an influential...
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...I have always loved Robert Frost and can remember even from a very young age asking my mother to read me his poetry over and over and over again. I loved the beautiful places he described and perplexing messages he offered my young mind. At the time of course I had no idea that many of those poems were written in and about Vermont. I know we have mentioned him in class but I decided to look up a couple of poems that were specifically about Vermont and see how they related to our daily lives here today. Of course I came across one of my favorites, that I actually recited in a fourth grade class, Nothing Gold Can Stay. The poem describes the changing of the leaves something we know to be quintessential to Vermont in so many ways. We’ve learned about how the leaf season alone brings in tourists from all over the country to Vermont. The poem also highlights the beauty of summer in Vermont while reminding the reader that it cannot last. “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.“ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/01/travel/robert-frost-s-vermont.html?pagewanted=all...
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...Gold Always Goes As everyone transitions into the new year, self reflection is inevitable. As years pass, humans try to grasp onto their youth and cling to it, hoping that although time may age, they won’t have to. Teenagers and young adults are constantly faced with having to leave behind the comfort and innocence, a topic often explored in literature (like bildungsromans) and coming-of-age movies. Having to grow up isn’t always wanted or welcomed, but it is something everyone must do eventually. This is explored in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and the Twenty One Pilots song, “Stressed Out.” Although one may be saddened by coming of age (because of the changes that come with...
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...In Robert Frost's symbolic poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" he uses the literary devices rhyme, personification, metaphor, and imagery to convey meaning; he explains how nothing, especially something beautiful can last forever. Ways he shows this is "The first green of spring is her hardest hue to hold" and "so Eden sank with grief". All these express that nothing good can last. Frost uses nature as his theme because the cycle of life and death showed through the season provides imagery that people can picture in their head. Robert Frost wrote "nothing gold can stay" after his mother dies and his brother was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. This explains how his theme nothing good lasts forever relates to him in a personal way. When...
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...Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost) VS. I Used to Live Here Once (Rhys) Jason W. Miller Ashford University ENG125: Introduction to Literature Professor Patricia Lake December 3, 2012 Death and impermanence is always full of sorrow. I have chosen Death and Impermanence as my theme to discuss, not because of tragedy I’ve experienced, but instead because it’s an interestingly complex theme. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “I Used to Live Here Once” could not be no more different in their visual form than they already are; however, they both represent the theme through common emotions and mood of the literary works. Throughout my essay I will explain the relevance of the two works, and authors, as well as the differences. The formalist approach will be my choice of critical analysis of the two works, which will aid in forming my comparison and contrast of both works as well. “The poem of the Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is discussing the beauty of life’s wonderful but short-lived treasures, as example chasing dreams and spending time with loved ones. It is illustrated by Frost those treasures in the world related to the nature through the use of metaphors, imagery, diction, and allusion. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” helps open one’s eyes to the harsh realities of nature’s path and although we must all succumb to the laws of nature, it is these unbreakable laws that make life so treasured (Shmoop, 2010). On the other side the literature “I Used to Live Here...
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..."Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold." (148) While reading the book "The Outsiders" by Se Hinton staying gold is mentioned many times in the book. The book is about a greaser named Ponyboy from Tulsa Oklahoma, Ponyboy goes through trials with some of his best buddies. I think that one of the best themes showed in the book is staying gold even when things around you are changing. I think this because they talk about Robert Frosts poem "Nothing Gold can Stay" (77) Secondly the book talked about people through out the book doing golden things to help the greasers out, and lastly before Johnny passes he tells Ponyboy to stay gold. First of all I think that one of the best themes from this book is staying gold while everything else is changing, one of the reasons why I think this is because in the book it mentions...
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