Use Of Imagery In Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

When literature reaches a climax in the plot, or has a significant theme, the author stresses the use of imagery and will force the reader to stick with a certain, strong image. The central image of a poem creates a mood, helps the reader understand, and allows the reader to visually experience the piece. In Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” Frost describes several images of nature, new beginnings, and the decline of beauty. Frost uses powerful imagery throughout his poem, and he connects his theme by stating, “so dawn goes down to day,” which illustrates a sunrise turning into day (line 7). This image stands out because it illustrates the pure, innocent beauty that comes from a sunrise, yet that beauty fades as time progresses and, through this simple image, Frost …show more content…
When the gas is deployed on the soldiers, the author describes the gas as “a green sea” that causes the soldiers to “[plunge] at [the speaker], guttering, choking, drowning” (Owen 14-16). This scene stands out because the author uses the sea to describe such a terrible experience, and the author also gives a series of negative effects of the gas in order to create a gloomy, horrific mood and image of death.
In “I think it will be winter,” Vera Pavlova uses imagery to foreshadow an inevitable death that is approaching. Pavlova describes the scene as a white landscape with a road, and in the distance, “a dot [emerges], so black that eyes will blur, and it will be approaching for a long, long time,” (2-4), and later in the poem, the figure has “[acquired] size and three dimensions” and it will continue to approach the speaker (11-12). This dark image, in a white setting, gives the approaching figure a mysterious significance, and highlights an atmosphere of inevitable death, for the approaching figure represents