...Title Robert Frost was born in California; however, critics would collectively agree that he identified with New England more than his roots of California where he lived for eleven years till his father’s death. Frost was a farmer, which could explain his need to write poems that involved nature, but he was not necessarily a good farmer. He was a better writer than anything else which caused him to have great acclaim in England, where he had moved to in 1912 with his family. He would return back when critics praised his work in the United States. Frost would also lose 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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...The Outsiders. This poem has two meanings, the first about good things never last forever and the second about youth and innocence. Robert Frost’s poem relates to the novel, the Outsiders in many ways. The first meaning is that good things do not last. That life may seem perfect when everything is going right, but this will not stay forever. Everything living is beautiful and every beautiful thing will eventually die. Robert Frost is saying good things will never stay forever. Many times in a person’s life there will unhappiness and sorrow, the good times will end. Even though the great times come to an end, they will be followed by more and more great times. It is just like life. Life begins through beautiful babies, but sadly, in many years the baby will die. But, since good times will come again, a new beautiful baby will be born. It also means that all things are going to change eventually, like people, seasons and nature. Gold in the poem represents youth. Line one, “Natures first green is gold,” indicates nature’s first green is youth because every living thing begins with youth. Line two, “Her hardest hue to hold,” represents that youth is very hard to keep because they get older in age. In line three, the poem says, “Her early leafs a flower”, which defines youth as innocent, and beautiful like a flower. Line four, “But only so an hour” means that the young child will grow older and no longer be innocent for it will mature and begin to do wrong things. In line...
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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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...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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..."Nature's first green is gold" ......................Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Frost's poem contains the perfect image of Vermont's spring landscape. The hardwoods lose their leaves in autumn and stay bare through the winter. In spring, the first green to appear is really gold as the buds break open. The willows and maples have this temporary gold hue. In only a few days, the leaves mature to green. Figurative Language Figurative language uses "figures of speech" - a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the words. For example, "All the world's a stage" Frost often referred to them simply as "figures." Frost said, "Every poem I write is figurative in two senses. It will have figures in it, of course; but it's also a figure in itself - a figure for something, and it's made so that you can get more than one figure out of it." Cook Voices p235 Metaphor A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things essentially unalike. To Frost, metaphor is really what poetry is all about. He is notably a poet of metaphors more than anything else. This is so important, we should hear directly from the poet. Frost said," Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, 'grace metaphors,' and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, 'Why don't you say what you mean?' We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like...
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...Robert Frost is considered one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. Many authors from different backgrounds influenced him. His works are simple enough for the general public to understand, but are complex enough to ponder over for hours at a time. From his first published poem to his last, Robert Frost has touched the hearts of people from all over the world. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He was the son of William Prescott Frost and Isabelle Moodie. Frost was named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee because of his father’s strong democratic political views. His father died later on in 1885 from tuberculosis. Before his death however, he requested that he be buried in Lawrence,...
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...Nothing Gold Can Stay Enjoy things while they last and while you have them.Anything beautiful and meaningful will not last forever but only for the moment.The title of Robert Frost's poem,”Nothing Gold Can Stay” describes deep meaning into nature and life.The color, or hue, doesn't remain the same- in other words, it doesn't "hold." The changing of the color symbolizes how quickly things change.He uses nature to symbolize the beautiful things and how eventually it all fades.This poem reflects life in many different ways.Few things are permanent; life itself eventually comes to an end. We often try to hold on to something or someone that is precious to us ("gold"), and many times we are not able to keep it.."So Eden sank to grief,and So dawn...
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...I Believe… I believe you should cherish and appreciate what you have well it's still around, and you should never forget that everything can leave you. I think that nothing is gonna last forever, not relationships, belongings, or even yourself. Everything finds a way to end or leave you at one point or another, for the best or the worse. I think this lesson hit me the hardest last year, March 12, 2014. After school, when I got home I was told that one of my dogs, a boxer of 6 years, had passed away. We had just gotten her June 2013, but it felt like I had known for 6 years because of the bond that I shared with her. the next day I had realized that I was grateful to have had her for even that short time and that I never once took...
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...Robert Frost: Poetical Analyzed Robert Lee Frost was a poet who wrote most of his poetry based on his past. After college, Frost experienced many tragic events throughout his life. He lived a depressing and miserable life. Unfortunately, Frost had to experience the death of four of his children and his wife, although he still had two children alive with him. Frost had so much loneliness in his life that it ultimately led to his death (Sullivan). With all these dreadful experiences in his life, his poetry was affected tremendously based on what he endured throughout is life. Frost has a very particular style and form, which is what makes him one of the most beloved poets to ever live. Frost’s themes were also affected from his life occurrences, subsequently he wrote about themes like: death, loneliness and isolation. He also chose to write about the theme of nature in his poetry, some poems having to do with death and sorrow, but he chose to write some of his poetry based on nature (Hollander). Robert Frost wrote his poems based on his life experiences he had in his past. Robert Frost had a specific style that can be found in most of his poems, he includes in his poems, some type of end rhyme. For example in the poem “Now Close the Windows”, he includes end rhyme in the entire poem. Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss; No bird is singing now, and if there is, Be it my loss. It will be long ere the marshes resume...
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