Nothing Gold Can Stay Mary Oliver

Beauty is something that all young forms of life take advantage of. Elders show the younger generation how they used to look at their age to prove that appreciate the best moments in life because nothing lasts forever. In Robert Frost’s lyric poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and Mary Oliver’s lyric poem “Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness”, both authors state that appreciate the best moment sin life because nothing lasts forever. The speaker of Oliver’s poem encourages us directly to “let us go on, cheerfully enough” (line 18), even though the reader has the idea that darkness is coming. On the other hand, Frosts poem suggest indirectly that although nothing lasts forever, the current objects beauty must fade away in order for the new

For example in line 3, the speaker of the poem tells us that “the world descends”. This metaphor demonstrates that the leaves on the autumn trees are starting to fall meaning winter is coming. These leaves that are falling to the ground will on the contrary to the initial negative tone, provide a “rich mash” (line 4) which will act as a fertilizer for next spring’s new beauties. It is a “mash” of colors when the autumn leaves are on the ground, mostly in the colors of red and orange which both symbolize happiness and a bright future, similar to which will come in the spring thanks to this fertilizer. The speaker asks the reader “who would cry out?” (Line 7), a rhetorical question because in reality, nobody would cry out because most people know it is necessary cycle. This contrast with the poem “Nothing Gold Can’t Stay” by Robert Frost, analyzed earlier, because that lyric illustrates that people will become upset when nature cycles its seasons. In addition, the speaker sates, “sun be swinging east” (line 20) which describes the suns movement eastward gradually becoming lower and lower making the days become shorter and colder. However, it’s important to note that the word “swinging” comes from a pendulum which is cycle. This subtlety tells the reader that the sun way be swinging east now but it will come back around and rise in the west, not all is