Themes, mottos, life lessons, quotes, whatever you may call it, many connect. Robert Frost wrote “Nothing gold can stay” a poem that represents miraculous, yet devastating themes. The Outsiders is a novel written by S.E. Hinton. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” has similar themes that are represented in the novel The Outsiders. As always, when you are born you come into the world fresh and new; innocent. The first line of the poem represents this theme of innocence. “Nature's first green is gold.”While the literary form is about new precious plant growth, the metaphorical theme connects to the novel. Whether you are a Greaser or Soc you are born young and innocent into your social class. When Johnny is on his deathbed, he wrote a note to Ponyboy. This note stated, “I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy who wrote it, he meant you’re gold when you're a kid, like …show more content…
The end of Robert Frost's poem tells the end in such a clever way that it may not seem scary. “So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.”These words written by Robert Frost explains how corruption sets in, over all of its victims. A similar theme of death, and dying is presented in the novel The Outsiders. Dallas Winston loved only one person, Johnny Cade. When Johnny died dally went bezerk. Johnny dieing is the first realization of the gang breaking apart. This theme portrays that if you love someone, you live for them. Finally in Frost's poem, the end is present. The last line of the poem is “Nothing gold can stay”. Finally his last theme in the poem is that the end is inevitable. In The Outsiders, when Johnny dies, and Dally dies, this is the end. “You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.”This represents the end of the gang, but not the end for Ponyboy. Overall the end is inevitable, and oblivion will