Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
1 Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
3 Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
5 Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
7 So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
1 Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
3 Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
5 Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
7 So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Name__________________________
Date________________________
Hour_________________
1. What do lines one and two mean?
2. What do lines 3 and 4 mean?
3. What does subside mean?
4. What does line 5 mean?
5. How many stanzas are in this poem?
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
1 Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
3 Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
5 Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
7 So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
1. What do lines one and two mean?
2. What do lines 3 and 4 mean?
3. What does subside mean?
4. What does line 5 mean?
5. How many stanzas are in this poem?
Name__________________________
Date________________________
Hour_________________
6. What is Eden?
7. How, or in what way, did Eden sink to grief?
8. An allusion is a reference outside of the text to history, literature, culture, or myth. This poem has an
allusion.
It alludes to ________________________.
9. Dawn is golden in color, but what happens to it?
10. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
11. Explain the final line of the poem, “nothing gold can stay.” What does the poet mean?
12. How is this poem related to Ponyboy’s life?
6. What is Eden?
7. How, or in what way, did Eden sink to grief?
8. An allusion is a reference outside of the text to history, literature, culture, or myth. This poem has an
allusion.
It alludes to ________________________.
9. Dawn is golden in color, but what happens to it?
10. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
11. Explain the final line of the poem, “nothing gold can stay.” What does the poet mean?
12. How is this poem related to Ponyboy’s life?
Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
1. What do lines one
and two mean?
1
3. What does line 5
mean?
5. How many stanzas are in
this poem? ____________
6. What is the rhyme
scheme of this poem?
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
3 Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
5 Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
7 So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
10. Dawn is golden in color, but what
happens to it?
2. What do lines 3
and 4 mean?
4. What does subside
mean?
7. What is Eden?
8. How, or in what way, did Eden sink to
grief?
11. Explain the final line of the poem, “nothing
gold can stay.” What does the poet mean?
12. How is this poem related to
Ponyboy’s life?
An allusion is a reference outside of the
text to history, literature, culture, or
myth. This poem has an allusion.
9. It alludes to
________________________.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
1 Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
3 Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
5 Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
7 So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
(poem imitation)
Nothing Shy Can Remain
By Mrs. Rapp
School’s first sound is shy
It’s scariest silence to absorb.
It’s beginning introduction’s timid;
But only so a period.
Then silence turns to solace.
So Big Splash closes for summer.
So separations go around to reunions.
Nothing shy can remain.
Nothing __________ Can ____________
By______________________________
1
___________ first _________is ___________
(possessive noun) (noun)
(adjective)
_________
________________ ________to _____________.
(poss. pronoun) (superlative adj.) (noun)
(verb)
3
5
____________ _______ ________’s a _____________;
(poss. pro.)
(adj.)
(noun)
(noun)
But only so a(n) __________________.
(noun)
Then___________ ___________to _______________.
(noun)
(verb)
(noun)
So _____________ _____________ to ________________,
(noun)
(verb)
(noun)
7
So _____________goes ___________ to _________________.
(noun)
(preposition)
(noun)
Nothing _____________ can _______________.
(adj.)
(verb)
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” Questions
1. What do lines one and two mean?
2. What do lines 3 and 4 mean?
3. What does subside mean?
4. What does line 5 mean?
5. How many stanzas are in this poem?
6. What is Eden?
7. How, or in what way, did Eden sink to grief?
8. An allusion is a reference outside of the text to
history, literature, culture, or myth. This poem has
an allusion.
It alludes to ________________________.
9. Dawn is golden in color, but what happens to it?
10. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
11. Explain the final line of the poem, “nothing gold
can stay.” What does the poet mean?
12. How is this poem related to Ponyboy’s life?