‘NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY’ BY ROBERT FROST ANALYSISMUHAMMAD SYAFIQ BIN SAADANANISA BINTI AHMADAIN NABILA FATIHA BINTI MOHD ZAHARMIZAH BINTI MIASIN

THE POEM

Nature's first green is goldHer 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.

INTERPRETATION BY LINE

Line 1: Gold is very valuable. Its refer to youth. All plants

and fruits are green. So youth age is said to be new and valuable.

Line 2: Youth is the hardest moment for thing born hold

on to. Line 3:

A flower, being something beautiful. This means that beauty is spent on the youth age.

Line 4: An hour is short amount of time. Youth and beauty can

be held for but a small length of time. Line 5:

Then the bad comes back and it true self shows It dies and fall apart Same goes to our life, bad things happens Yellows comes back again Like our memories, we couldn’t store everything inside.

There will be some being left Line 6:

Eden is the place of happiness. Yet, even Eden was change to great sadness. This show the message that happiness can change over grief suddenly without expectation.

Line 7: In Greek mythology, when Oedipus was

cofronted by the Riddle of the Sphinx, “dawn” was compared to youth, while “day” was compared to middle age. Robert Frost means that youth will fade just as the sun rises from dawn to day.

Line 8: This is the overall message Robert Frost wanted

to tell- nothing can stay young and beautiful forever.

THEMES

Beauty The use of the word “gold” in this poem shows

intelligent and careful choice. The word “gold” represents both the color and its namesake, the metallic ore that is valued both for its aesthetic beauty and financially for its rarity. By using this word to explain the brief state of beauty through which the things of the world pass, the poem describes the value of the plant’s first shoot, of Eden, and of the sunrise. Unlike the metal ore, though, the examples Frost gives us of golden beauty are not rare; they are fleeting. Frost’s point is about the transitory nature of beauty: nothing gold can survive.

PERSONAL RESPONSE

1..There is a distinctive category of short poem in English that has never been given a proper name. Usually between five and twelve lines in length, the form is briefer than a sonnet but more extensive than an epigram.

2.These poems also often have an emblematic quality–the images acquire a symbolic resonance and suggest broader meanings.

3. short poems are difficult to write. Every line, every image must meaningfully contribute to the whole.

4.The movement of the poem is both simple and richly evocative

5."Nothing Gold Can Stay" explicitly describes identical moments in three temporal cycles: the daily, the yearly, and the mythic.

6. By focusing on a single moment, Frost evokes an entire day, year, lifetime, and human history.

LITERATURE DEVICES Personification - referring to Nature as a

female. This is a long-standing association with the idea of "Mother Nature" providing sustenance to our world.

There's a couple, but one would be "Nature's first green is gold" green isn't gold obviously...he's comparing the first green of spring with something precious ie// gold...on a bit deeper level, you could even see "nature's first green" as a metaphor for youth...transient, precious, remaining only briefly.

Alliteration -- "Nature's first green is gold," "Her hardest hue to hold," and "So dawn goes down to day." Alliteration, like most sound devices, is used to draw the reader's attention to particular words or phrases that express the poem's rhetorical argument. Here, the first example shows that gold is even more prized a color in nature than green; the second emphasizes how fleeting a color gold is in nature -- the gold that comes with the sunrise, that is. The third example echoes that sentiment, showing how quickly sunrise simply becomes sunlight.

Allusion -- "So Eden sank to grief" -- This refers to the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve brought death into the world by giving in to the temptation of the serpent, in the Old Testament.

CRITICISM

For a short poem it is really difficult to write. Every line must be perfect to support whole poem. Its contain only 40 words .No word contain more than 2 syllables. Most of the was monosyllables.

This poem’s idea seems to state that nothing stays the same for long, so you better believe it will change. Not only should you prepare yourself for change, but you should also realize that you cannot do anything to stop it from happening. It also seems to believe that all good things and all bad things will eventually change. Now Robert Frost may be on to something, but he is still missing a few key points. As example not all thing changes example is God. God always stay and never change.

Even though Robert Frost may have a problem with everything good changing, he does not have a problem with

MORAL VALUES

We must appreciate our nature. We must take a good care our nature Even though youth age is fun and enjoying, it

not eternal because everyone will become old

Happiness will not be everlasting, because sorrow will come in our lives.