Gold Can Stay Allusion

Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is aimed at an audience of over achievers and “Ebenezer Scrooges.” The poem by Frost outlines the importance and challenge of being content, as nothing good will last forever. Frost details this statement with a peaceful yet relaxed tone throughout the poem. Lines one through three convey a sense of positivity and hope with words of positive connotation such as “First, green, gold early and flower.” Frost uses lines four through eight to reinforce the unwritten shady rule that nothing gold can stay with depressing sentences and words like line 6, “So Eden sank to grief.” Frost uses alliteration often in his short poem to convey a certain emotion of each line using repetition of the first letter of each word as demonstrated in the first line, “Green is gold.” This line makes the reader feel happy and content as the colors green and gold are said to make people feel joyful or at peace. Frost also uses metaphors twice in the poem by linking

Frost addresses nature as a “her,” this word alludes to the idea of mother nature springing into life as the first leaf is presented as a flower would. Another allusion Frost utilizes is the biblical allusion referencing Eden. Frost turns the setting of the garden of perfection and personifies it comparing it to Mother Nature as well. Line six, with a depressing tone, describes “Eden sinking to grief” as the season of green leaves come to an end implying that the season of fall has begun. The overall meaning of the poem by Robert Frost is to outline the unspoken rule that nothing good can stay as it is, in the case of the poem, Frost uses the event of Mother Nature’s green depleting after seasons to represent the everyday ambitions of the overachievers having success then eventually not being able to have it forever meaning bankruptcy or eventually