Title Did you ever know how to carefully exam the elements in a piece of literatures and comparing them together? Well today we are go to compare a poem and a novel together, here’s a novel called “The Outsiders” and a poem called “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” The Outsiders talks about a teen gang that gets into a fight and ends in a death of a social member. Some of the teens get into content with their violent lives and Some of the teens dies. Some of the teens like Ponyboy Curtis think that they are not part of a group and think that they are an outsider.
The poem likens the loss of innocence that the boys experienced to the wilting of flowers. Sunrises transform the night into day and everything is destroyed. Johnny and Pony boy admit that this loss is unescapable. Before Johnny dies he says to pony boy “stay gold” to hold on to his self and to stay confident. Innocence will fade with age.
Everyone battles their own war with different things. As the world evolves over time, we encounter problems similar to “The Seafarer” by unknown Anglo-Saxon and Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” The poems demonstrate sentimental value of a priced possession you eventually lose. Although the poems were written in different time frames, both illustrate the image of man versus time.
In the poem’s beginning, scenes of vibrant colors are immediately contrasted with death or decay, “leaf blooms [then] burns red”. This opposition between two completely polar ideas, constructs a sentiment of conflict in their work as a whole. In fact, the juxtaposition relates the speaker’s internal conflict. Without these sentiments, the poem would not be able to fully develop its focus on the speaker’s internal dilemma, as the juxtaposition directly works to jar the reader with conflict. Furthermore, the juxtaposition of the specific concepts of life and death supports the poem’s theme about risk taking.
Frost observes the changes he notices outdoors, writing, “Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaf’s a flower; / But only so an hour” (lines 1-4). Here he is noting the changes in the colors outside, along with the life cycle of a plant, originally only bearing leaves but then blossoming into flowers later on throughout the seasons. Although the poem’s main focus is that things cannot stay forever and do not last long, it can also be argued that seasons themselves are prime examples of the circular notion of time.
The poem posits that gold, representing purity, can’t stay forever because it is, by its own virtue, temporary. It starts by stating that “nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold,” and “her early leaf’s a flower; but only so an hour.” These lines try
This poem is wrote by Robert Frost, he travels a lot to speak with other kids about his poems. It was wrote in about early 1923. The poem Nothing Gold an Stay tells a story about life and that when a flower dies it's sad for him and all of the other flowers and no one really realizes it.
In the context of the poem, gold is not a precious metal, but rather the precious moments that we experience during our lifetimes. Fleeting sunsets, and the innocence of youth will not last very long, but that gives us more reason to cherish them while they do. Though all good things must come to an end, as Frost writes, a sincere appreciation for the impermanence of what is “gold” ultimately develops
Jack Helton Mr. Hendricks American Literature 11 April 2024 The Importance of Now Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”and T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” concerns self identity through illuminating moments, the concepts of the passage of time and the importance of now. Robert Frost uses the changing of seasons to illustrate the passage of time and times of personal growth.
Back when there was just one somebody to be waiting for me every day, I knew every time I went to school would be a happy day. All my hope was pushed on that one friend; happy if she was present, upset when not. This, of course, did not last. On the first day of school, one year, she left without a word. Like said in the poem: “Her early leaf’s a flower, but only so an hour.”
A point clarified and expressed, Lord of the Flies has an active connection relating the similar innocence the paired poem written by Robert Frost entails. Not a stranger, the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost appears as a reflection to the purpose of Golding’s writing. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost is a sight that instantly interprets a connection between the decaying innocence of the youth that is captured in this novel through the use of diction and symbolism. Two pieces of writing fall parallel to each other through the use of interpretive diction that creates the tone of these paired pieces.
The number of children killed by the Nazis hasn 't been officially determined, but it is believed to be around 1.5 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children, and thousands of handicapped children. Many of which were killed due to Dr. Josef Mengele 's fatal experiments and horrifying surgeries (Josef par.13). Before Mengele began his work at Auschwitz he was an assistant to Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who was widely known for his studies on twins. The following year when he received his medical degree, Mengele joined the SS and was drafted into the army (United par.1). The SS or Schutzstaffel accepted the responsibility for “solving” the “Jewish question.”
However, in a domain where crime runs wild, and segregation between groups is the norm, it ends up being harder to remain an individual when society considers one to be characterized as a group. A major turning point for the young protagonist occurs when he flees to a church in Windrixville after his friend Johnny—the youngest of the Greasers—kills a soc in self-defense. During the fleeing journey Ponyboy and Johnny come across a time of enlightenment as they wait for the arrival of Dally, a fellow Greaser who gave them the coordinates of the church. Through this time of awareness and realization, Ponyboy mentions Robert Frosts’ poem: “natures first green is gold//her hardest hue to hold//her early leaf’s a flower;//but only so an hour.//Then leaf subsides to leaf.//So Eden sank to grief,//So dawn goes down to day.//Nothing gold can stay.”
It also is saying that you have to move on. Metaphor was the third main literary element in the poem. “Nature’s first green is gold” and “Her early leaf’s a flower” are some major examples used for metaphors in the poem. “Natures first green is gold” means that nature is so valuable that it’s like gold. The “first green” part means that it’s like the start of a new beauty.
In “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, the author addresses the importance of realizing what it means to recognize that nothing positive or negative can last forever. Frost uses Gold as a symbol of a type of trauma or bad event/thing that is rebarbative or inconvenient. In this poem, Robert Frost makes it clear to the reader that no matter what, everything must erode away at some point. But whether that thing or situation was constructive or pessimistic, that thing or occurrence must end. Though that commodity will demise, that will not have to be the end.
