Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'

“Stay gold.” The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost has a few themes that can be related to in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Both the poem and the book have many similarities between their themes and events that take place. A quote that had stood out to me in the poem was, “nothing gold can stay.” This portrays the theme of, “all good must come to an end.” In The Outsiders, PonyBoy Curtis Was forced to cut his long hair off, which he loved to a high content in, order to change his appearance. He had said that it made him a greaser and was a big part of his personality. Cutting all his hair off was sort of like an awakening in a way, too. Pony was forced to mature a little and started seeing people for who they really were instead of behind their stereotype or “social mask.” Relating to “nothing gold can stay,” PonyBoy’s hair gave him confidence and eventually had to come to an end, but in the long run he got something good out of. …show more content…
Johnny Cade was loved by the whole gang of greasers and sadly drifted off while Pony was in the room. Dally had robbed a grocery store while heartbroken about the death of Johnny, but was shot down by the police in the park in front of the gang. Everyone was grieving over the whole situations for many days, but yet had to get over it. “Everything must die at some point,” has an impact on many lives in believing that it is in fact true and is hard when we must let go of something or