In the novel The Outsiders, Ponyboy shared a poem titled Nothing Gold Can Stay with Johnny while saying he didn’t understand the signification of the poem, but it related to him more than he thought. The few lines of the poem are, “Natures first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold, her early leaf's a flower but only so an hour.” This line compares green with the colour gold, implying that green is the most precious colour in nature because it is the hardest for it to be preserved. Green leaves change to different colours, and later on in winter they die and fall off their tree. The other line talks about flowers and how in the beginning flowers bloom and are beautiful, but after a little time, they wilt and die. The next lines of the poem
