what does the title mean?
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
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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.
then leaf subsides to leaf.
so eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
nothing gold can stay.
2007-02-24 05:36:41 · 13 answers · asked by ng92@sbcglobal.net 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
to me it makes me think how nothing stays young and beautiful forever
2007-02-24 05:41:38 · answer #1 · answered by HereIAm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was forced to read this book at school last year, and to my relief... I actually LOVED the Outsiders.
This poem links directly to the quote "Stay gold ponyboy."
The poem speaks about how everything starts out gold. With pure innocence, grace, but as times goes on these things change. And do not stay 'gold' forever.
2007-02-24 05:48:37 · answer #2 · answered by cake.faced (?) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means that no matter how good, or valuable, or pretty things may be, they will be the victims of time, which never stops for anything or anybody. Even gold will come to naught some day, and will be totally worthless. Time brings everything to an end sooner or later.
2007-02-24 05:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reading 'The Outsiders' for school?
It's a great book, and I can't remember how many times I read it when I was a pre-teen and teenager.
The title and the poem talk about how the most beautiful things in life tend to be fleeting, and that all beauty fades with time (and not just physical beauty, either; but things such as purity and innocence).
2007-02-24 05:38:37 · answer #4 · answered by HearKat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In autumn(fall) leaves turn gold ,then fall.
The leaf is a golden bud first ,then blooms to a flower,a leaf then turns gold again in autumn then falls, till next spring.
2007-02-24 05:44:04 · answer #5 · answered by patsy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kinda like the saying all that glitters isn't gold. In other words enjoy what you have in the moment for it might not always be there for you to enjoy. Maybe?
2007-02-24 05:46:15 · answer #6 · answered by Petronia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothin of value will last. Money is spent, family die, flowers die, day and night pass. Nothing GoldCan Stay.
2007-02-24 05:41:19 · answer #7 · answered by ruth4526 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, as precious as gold, will last very long
2007-02-24 05:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by nakiska11111 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means to me that things are different over time from what they once were.
2007-02-24 05:39:45 · answer #9 · answered by huckypeep2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing valuable last that long
2007-02-24 05:39:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋