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An application to
“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.
T=Title
• Read the title of the poem.
• What do you think about when you read the
title?
• What predictions can you make about the poem
based upon the title?
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
•I think of change, loss, beauty, death
•Gold= good, valuable, money
•Can’t stay= loss?
P=Paraphrase
• Nature's first green is gold, • plants are yellow before
green
• Her hardest hue to hold.
• They don’t stay that way.
• Her early leaf's a flower;
• First there is a bloom;
• But only so an hour.
• But it doesn’t last long.
• Then leaf subsides to leaf. • The leaves fall and are
replaced by others.
• So Eden sank to grief,
• Eden also lost happiness,
• So dawn goes down to day.
• Also, The morning hours
• Nothing gold can stay.
pass by.
• All beauty vanishes.
C=Connotation
Connotation: The associated meanings/feelings of a word
Inspiring/Dangerous
valuable
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower; beauty
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
Perfection/Sin
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
A=Attitude
What is the Poet’s Feeling toward the subject?
(Use your “Words to Describe Tone” Handout)
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour. Tone=bittersweet
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief, Tone=disheartened
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
S=Shift
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.
Changes from
So
Eden
sank
to
grief,
describing the
good to
So dawn goes down to day.
discussing
loss of good
Nothing gold can stay.
T=Title (revisited)
• Gold is everything beautiful and good—
but because of how the world works, it
is not permanent.
OR
• Gold might represent innocence and
purity—but humans do not remain so
(just ask Eve!)
T=Theme
What is the statement about the human
condition/life?
• Humans are fated to loose purity and
goodness.
• Life is a cycle that forever changes from
beauty to beauty.
• Even the happiest of lives ends in death
and grief.