Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'

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although robert frost write this at the end of world war 1, he wrote this because he thought the world would end because of the next great war that was bound to happen. since this poem is a story about life, it is a narrative.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" the title expresses an opinion that nothing good can stay very long. although there is no concrete repetition, he says her and gold a lot as robert frost is trying to emphasise his fear of her (mother earth) ending as the gold can't stay
It doesn't specify a date but it is set in the beginning of spring when the leaves start to come back and gain color.
Even though there are not living characters he uses personification to make nature and eden a character. l Robert Frost has his own meaning to it but at the same time it could mean a genre of things
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Unless you're really depressed or something) and that it isn't bright and happy as it once was.
It's a droning monologue there is no beat or song to it, it has rhyme but i feel like the reason it's like that because it's about the world ending it's not going to be a very happy poem.
It does a great job of using sight to tell the poem i can imagine every line of the poem in my head.
I feel like in the beginning you imagine a new leaf coming out everything bright and the it starts to lose it's bright color and everything gets more dull.
There is a rhyme scheme but I can't imagine sound when i read the poem .

In the reading i heard of Robert Frost reading it, he sounded harsh and cold and not happy about life.
"Literary Analysis:
1- Mother nature’s first bud is precious
2-Mother nature cannot keep this color long
3-it’s color is bright like a flowers
4-the color doesn't last very long
5-then the color gets dimmer and the whole leaf turns color
6-it’s sad when that color ends up going away
7-the sun has come up
8-nothing great lasts very long

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