“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Analysis 1415
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“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
1. Identify the rhyme scheme of this poem: ________________________________________________
2. What connections can you make between Eden and dawn? _________________________________
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3. What does the poet mean when he says “Nature’s first green is gold”? ________________________
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4. What is the connection the poet is making between Nature and life? Be specific in explaining the
implied analogy. Particularly examine the line “So dawn goes down to day” in your analysis.
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5. Explain what the final line of the poem implies. What literary term would we use to explain this
implication?
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