Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs 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.
-Robert Frost
2006-08-29 09:40:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
I first heard of it in The Outsiders. I love the poem.
2006-08-29 09:47:43 · update #1
My grade 8 teacher a few years ago said that the poem describes the lost of innocence. When you're a child, everything is pure and gold, just like dawn. As you grow older, your innocence slowly goes away.
2006-08-29 11:32:16 · update #2
Yeah, I love all Frost's poems. I have to admit I first heard that on The Outsiders.
2006-08-29 09:44:49 · answer #1 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my gosh, I love that poem. I first heard that on the Outsiders and then we had to do it for English last year. I was happy, because I basically knew it already. That's a great poem though. Robert Frost was a brillian poet.
2006-08-29 23:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by Loved By Someone Above 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this poem is talking about temptation as well. Like Paradise Lost and how everything is green and golden and perfect until Adam and Eve ate the apple in the Garden of Eden and everything changed. But i do like this poem.
2006-08-29 18:21:21 · answer #3 · answered by chelley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frost's poems always have deeper meanings. Even this one has, It tells us how futile materialistic pleasures are ! It is beautiful. I even love "Birches" and others. I wish I could write at least four lines like him.
2006-08-29 17:41:59 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love this poem
2006-08-30 18:02:14 · answer #5 · answered by Mira 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh - that is so beautiful.
I've got tears running down my leg
2006-08-29 16:45:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is sincerely beautiful.
2006-08-29 20:03:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋