Analysis Of Nothing Gold Can Stay

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In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost he talks about life and he uses plants as a analogy. In line one, he talks about how nature's first green is gold and it also means that when a baby is born it's important. In line three it talks about it again and shows repetition. In line four Robert talks about how being young and a plant’s flower doesn’t last forever. All of the analogies in the poem remind the reader that life is short. In the poem “nothing gold can stay” robert uses metaphor, imagery, and personification in order to portray the meaning that nothing last forever. In the the poem he uses a lot of metaphors. He also states that being young is hard to hold on too and it doesn't last very long, Robert means this when he says

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