Nothing Gold Can Stay Forever
In this poem by Robert Frost, it talks about how "Nothing Gold Can Stay Forever." He's right in a lot of ways, however; "gold" can mean different things to different people. It can mean love, youth, health, memories, sunsets, sunrises, flowers, a baby, someone who believes in only good things or tries to help people...anything that can make a person happy or feel good. To me "Gold" means Summer days when you're a kid. Days are filled with sunshine, blue skies, white, fluffy clouds and hanging out with your friends. Memories can stay "forever" as long as we share them with other people and by doing that, we make sure that memories don't "die." It's a cynical poem and also sad.
Gold means special, rare, something beautiful such as sunsets, blooming flowers, kids staying sweet and innocent. In the poem, Robert Frost says "The first green of spring is her hardest hue to hold." In …show more content…
So we must cherish every bit of gold while we can and take nothing for granted." (from allpoetry.com) In The Outsiders, the poem offers Ponyboy and Johnny a way to understand their lives. It likens the inevitable loss of innocence that the boys experience "to the wilting of flowers. Sunrises transform the night into day, flowers wilt, and paradise is destroyed." In the poem, the conditions of existence dictate that everything loses its initial innocence. This loss of youth and purity does not have to be devastating, however. By using a metaphor from nature, Frost suggests that the loss of innocence is as natural as the death of a flower. Both losses must be accepted as an inevitable part of the cycle of life. In citing the poem, Johnny and Ponyboy acknowledge that this loss is unavoidable but not that the loss of beauty is inevitable. Before he dies, Johnny urges Ponyboy to “[s]tay gold,” to hold onto those ideals that will outlast his loss of youth and innocence.
In this poem by Robert Frost, it talks about how "Nothing Gold Can Stay Forever." He's right in a lot of ways, however; "gold" can mean different things to different people. It can mean love, youth, health, memories, sunsets, sunrises, flowers, a baby, someone who believes in only good things or tries to help people...anything that can make a person happy or feel good. To me "Gold" means Summer days when you're a kid. Days are filled with sunshine, blue skies, white, fluffy clouds and hanging out with your friends. Memories can stay "forever" as long as we share them with other people and by doing that, we make sure that memories don't "die." It's a cynical poem and also sad.
Gold means special, rare, something beautiful such as sunsets, blooming flowers, kids staying sweet and innocent. In the poem, Robert Frost says "The first green of spring is her hardest hue to hold." In …show more content…
So we must cherish every bit of gold while we can and take nothing for granted." (from allpoetry.com) In The Outsiders, the poem offers Ponyboy and Johnny a way to understand their lives. It likens the inevitable loss of innocence that the boys experience "to the wilting of flowers. Sunrises transform the night into day, flowers wilt, and paradise is destroyed." In the poem, the conditions of existence dictate that everything loses its initial innocence. This loss of youth and purity does not have to be devastating, however. By using a metaphor from nature, Frost suggests that the loss of innocence is as natural as the death of a flower. Both losses must be accepted as an inevitable part of the cycle of life. In citing the poem, Johnny and Ponyboy acknowledge that this loss is unavoidable but not that the loss of beauty is inevitable. Before he dies, Johnny urges Ponyboy to “[s]tay gold,” to hold onto those ideals that will outlast his loss of youth and innocence.