If I were Ponyboy’s English teacher and had to assign him his next assignment, I would instruct him to relate and parallel his actions and experiences to Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” in a short essay. I would do this because, as Ponyboy’s English teacher, I would want him to further analyze the poem and find it relatable to his life. I would also want Ponyboy to realize what Robert Frost was writing about. I think that Ponyboy would relate to the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” through Johnny’s gallant and dauntless death, his short lived youth and innocence , and the way that people change throughout the course of the novel.
One experience that I think Ponyboy would parallel to the context of the poem would be Johnny’s death. Ponyboy would use this experience because it illustrates that Johnny was once gold and as the novel progresses Johnny’s “goldness,” youth, and innocence fade. In the novel Ponyboy quotes Robert Frost, “Her early leaf’s a flower, but only so an hour. So leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief.”(Hinton 77) Johnny is analogous to the leaves in the poem; perfect at first, but short lived. Dally's death is also analogous to the leaves in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” …show more content…
His tarnished reputation had people view him differently than before he was associated with Bob’s murder. In the newspaper article Ponyboy and Johnny are depicted as “Juvenile delinquents turned heros”(Hinton 107) after they heroically rescue the children inside the burning church. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” highlights the briefness of youth, life, purity, and innocence. Johnny and Ponyboys pureness, youth, and innocence was short lived and brief due to Bob’s murder. After Johnny, and Ponyboy rescued the children their reputation was restored, but their innocence and youth was beyond
One experience that I think Ponyboy would parallel to the context of the poem would be Johnny’s death. Ponyboy would use this experience because it illustrates that Johnny was once gold and as the novel progresses Johnny’s “goldness,” youth, and innocence fade. In the novel Ponyboy quotes Robert Frost, “Her early leaf’s a flower, but only so an hour. So leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief.”(Hinton 77) Johnny is analogous to the leaves in the poem; perfect at first, but short lived. Dally's death is also analogous to the leaves in “Nothing Gold Can Stay” …show more content…
His tarnished reputation had people view him differently than before he was associated with Bob’s murder. In the newspaper article Ponyboy and Johnny are depicted as “Juvenile delinquents turned heros”(Hinton 107) after they heroically rescue the children inside the burning church. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” highlights the briefness of youth, life, purity, and innocence. Johnny and Ponyboys pureness, youth, and innocence was short lived and brief due to Bob’s murder. After Johnny, and Ponyboy rescued the children their reputation was restored, but their innocence and youth was beyond