Nothing Gold Can Stay Poem Analysis
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English
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7th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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11 Slides • 5 Questions
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
By Robert Frost
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What 3 words stand out to you?
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Prediction: Based on this word cloud, what do you think this poem will be about?
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"Nature's first green is gold" is a metaphor.
What is "nature's first green"?
What does it mean for someting to "be gold"?
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Nature's first green is gold.
Setting of poem = nature
Nature's first green = spring, new life
is gold = precious, special
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Multiple Choice
Her hardest hue to hold.
Personification is giving human qualities or traits to non-human things. What is being personified here?
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Her hardest hue to hold.
The first color we see in spring doesn't stick around for very long.
This is "her hardest hue to hold"
"Her" = Mother Nature
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Her early leaf's a flower;
Spring = flowering trees and bushes
Turn to green leaves in summer
More metaphor - Mother Nature's first leaf is actually a flower!
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Nature's first green is gold.
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
What do you think Robert Frost is saying in stanza 1?
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Nature's first green is gold.
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Flower = symbol of youth; innocence
Only lasts for a short time before it changes and matures
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Then leaf subsides to leaf.
Subsides = sank down, settled
Flower > the actual leaf
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So Eden sank to grief;
Allusion = passing reference to someone or something
Nature is being compared to the Garden of Eden (biblical reference)
Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden when they sank or fell from God's grace.
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So dawn goes down to day.
Dawn turns into day
The beauty of day is nothing compared to the golden beauty of the first light of dawn.
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Nothing gold can stay.
Early spring leaves and flowers, Garden of Eden and dawn are all gold.
None of them can stay for very long in this world.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
By Robert Frost
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