Analysis Of Nothing Gold Can Stay

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In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there was a poem mentioned, “Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. I think that the theme of this poem is growing up. The first line in the poem is "Nature 's first green is gold" and in Johnny 's note to Ponyboy he says, "You 're gold when you 're a kid, like green." I think that this means that when you 're most gold when your a kid. The next line is "Her hardest hue to hold," I think that this line represents the inevitability of growing up. I also think that green is the color of youth and that 's why it said that 's her hardest hue to hold. That relates to the story because people in this story are always getting into fist fights and it 's hard to find the child in you when your