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Paradox In Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

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In “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, the distinct paradox within the poem is easily readable. Frost uses this paradox with extremely smooth transitions and rhythm to express to how vulnerable youth is. The way each sentence articulates bringing in a different season in the poem, yet can still express the way a person loses their youth with each changing season of their life. However, this paradox is best illustrated when Frost compares green to gold and leaf to flower. Illustrating green to gold in this poem creates a unique contradiction of play on words, yet when the poem is addressed with a profound interpretation one can see the true meaning of this comparison. Now, the green to gold paradox can easily be seen in the first line
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