Essays on Nothing Gold Can Stay

I have recommended “Eating Alone” because it is tone and motif. The tone of the poem is nostalgic. The author mentions the earth now is “brown and old” while remembering before how he used to walk with his father. He cannot remember if he talked with him or not, but the memories of his, “left hand braced on knee, creaky—to lift and hold to myeye a rotten pear.” The memories are so strong he almost sees his father, only to find it is actually a shovel standing in dirt. The author also uses nature as a recurring theme of life, showing us ...

Using color to make a scene truly come alive and create a distinct image for the reader is a true art form in poetry. Placing color at the forefront in the mind of the reader can take them away from the reality of reading black print on a white page and awaken the imagination, helping them to see what the writer was envisioning while writing, helping to bring home why it was important to the writer that imagery and color be a part of the reading experience for the reader. Two poems which feature heavy use of color to help underscore the writer’s ...

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‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ is one of the best poems ever written by Robert Frost. It comprises only eight lines yet hold a great deal of substance. It is a highly inspirational poem which exhibits excellent alliteration, metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, rhyming and meter. Considered as one of the best English poems, it is worth analysing. This essay illuminates the various interesting elements and literary devices- mainly the rhyming, the word music through assonance, consonance and internal rhyming and finally the metaphors used to convey such a great meaning in ‘Nothing Can Stay Gold’. The first two elements namely rhyming and word ...

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

10 November 2012

Illuminating the poem:

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower, But only so an hour. So leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

The essence of poetry does not necessarily depend on the number of lines, complexity of phrases and sophistication of words chosen. If the phrases are inspirational or pleasant, only a few lines with simple words can suffice to create beautiful poetry. The famous poem ...