Imagery In Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost

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Robert Frost is one of America’s greatest poet-philosopher of all time. Frost was acknowledge by the white house and in the year of 1961, Frost was actually the first poet chose to present his poem at the inauguration for President John F. Kennedy. Frost has a beautiful way of expressing several themes throughout his poems with the use of nature imagery. In the first line of Nothing Gold Can Stay Frost start by saying, “Nature’s first green is gold” (1) Frost describes the grass being green is the first part of nature’s beauty but there is more than just that. This simple line is more complex than what it seems and symbolizes the seasons as well. Frost is using the season of spring as a metaphor because during winter most of all the grass,

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