“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost American poet Written in 1923
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“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
by Robert Frost
American poet
Written in 1923
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Rhyme Scheme
Nature’s first green is gold. A
Her hardest hue to hold. A
Her early leaf’s a flower; B
But only so an hour. B
Then leaf subsides to leaf. C
So Eden sank to grief, C
So dawn goes down today. D
Nothing gold can stay. D
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Line 1 & 2 AnalysisNature’s first green is gold.Her hardest hue to hold.
Analysis
Many times green is used to refer to something new.
New things (such as babies) are innocent.
Gold is used to show something is valuable or
precious.
New things are precious… innocence is gold.
Therefore, we can compare nature in this poem to
youth…cannot stay young/innocent forever.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Line 3 & 4 Analysis
Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.
Analysis
The leaf becomes a blossom, but only for a short
period of time.
Again, we can compare this to the middle of life,
it lasts for only a short amount of time.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Line 5 & 6Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,
Analysis
The leaves will overlap each other as they fall to
the ground.
Subsides- to sink of fall to the bottom, to become
quiet or less
Biblical reference to the Garden of Eden –
happiness became sadness, darkness and death.
We compare the leaf subsiding to growing old and
dying.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Line 7 & 8
So dawn goes down today.Nothing gold can stay.
Analysis
Basically, the poem states that even the gold of
dawn will become the gold of sunset- each day
must end.
Therefore, we can conclude that Frost believes
that everything must grow up, lose innocence
and die.
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