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    Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    This poem discusses how nothing in life can stay pure and innocent forever. It uses the metaphor of a leaf to represent how childhood ("Nature's first green") is beautiful but fleeting, as youth fades ("so Eden sank to grief") and innocence is lost ("Nothing gold can stay"). The poem suggests that life follows a natural cycle from innocence to experience, and that we should cherish life's beautiful moments because they do not last.

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    This poem discusses how nothing in life can stay pure and innocent forever. It uses the metaphor of a leaf to represent how childhood ("Nature's first green") is beautiful but fleeting, as youth fades ("so Eden sank to grief") and innocence is lost ("Nothing gold can stay"). The poem suggests that life follows a natural cycle from innocence to experience, and that we should cherish life's beautiful moments because they do not last.

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    This poem discusses how nothing in life can stay pure and innocent forever. It uses the metaphor of a leaf to represent how childhood ("Nature's first green") is beautiful but fleeting, as youth fades ("so Eden sank to grief") and innocence is lost ("Nothing gold can stay"). The poem suggests that life follows a natural cycle from innocence to experience, and that we should cherish life's beautiful moments because they do not last.

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    87 views9 pages

    Nothing Gold Can Stay

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    This poem discusses how nothing in life can stay pure and innocent forever. It uses the metaphor of a leaf to represent how childhood ("Nature's first green") is beautiful but fleeting, as youth fades ("so Eden sank to grief") and innocence is lost ("Nothing gold can stay"). The poem suggests that life follows a natural cycle from innocence to experience, and that we should cherish life's beautiful moments because they do not last.

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    NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

    BY ROBERT FROST

    NOOR ANIS SYAKIRIN MOHD AFFANDI


    NORSARA AKMA MOHD NUSIR
    NURFAZILA MOHD ZAM ZAM
    NUR ADIBAH ABDUL LATIF
    NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
    BY
    ROBERT FROST
    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.
    Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    So Eden sank to grief.
    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay
    SYNOPSIS
    • When you are born and are a child you are gold or innocent
    and pure.
    • You are unaware of the world as a child. Your childhood is the
    hardest thing to hold on to.
    • Childhood is the first part of your life. But it only last a while.
    • As you grow up you loose that innocence, you learn to be
    strong and confident.
    • You face hardships throughout your life. You begin to loose the
    golden innocence of your childhood and build a layer of
    confidence and security as you go into adulthood to fight and
    protect yourself from the world.
    • Sooner or later you're going to die. So don't
    take life for granted. Like the poem says "So
    dawn goes down to day" means when your
    gold you a kid and everything is new to you.
    • When you get older you lose your innocence
    and that is day; when nothing is new anymore.
    • Youth doesn't last forever. Also it means to
    cherish your life because one day we will die
    THEMES
    • The Fleetingness of Youth
    • Mortality and The Shortness of
    Life
    • Loss of Innocence
    The Fleetingness of Youth

    • In each of these cases, the poem emphasizes


    the beauty of youth but also its fleeting nature:
    • "Nature's first green" is also the "hardest hue
    to hold", the earliest leaf is a beautiful flower
    but "only so an hour", and the "dawn goes
    down to day".
    • Youth, while one of life's most beautiful times,
    cannot be held onto.
    Mortality and The Shortness of Life

    • The "cycle of life" is alluded to in the poem


    and although in its literal sense the poem
    discusses only the life-cycle of the leaf and of
    the day, the reader is forced to look past this
    and at the cycle of their own life.
    • Its show in the line "then leaf subsides to leaf."
    One leaf is replaced by another just as
    newborns replace those who grow old and die
    Loss of Innocence

    • Is a tendency to associate youth with


    innocence and as a result to pick this theme
    out of the same references to dawn, the "early
    leaf" and Nature's early colors

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