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The Outsiders: Poem Analysis
Objective: Students will read the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost. Students will analyze the poem on three different levels: (1) literal
or surface meaning; (2) symbolic or under the surface meaning; and (3) use of literary terms by filling out a graphic organizer.
Literal and/or Surface Analysis
Picture
Sentence
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost (1923)
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.
Symbolic and/or Under the Surface Analysis
Picture
Sentence
Literary Terms Analysis: Example and Picture
Rhyme Scheme/Couplet
…gold,
…hold.
…flower;
…hour.
…leaf.
…grief,
…day.
…stay.
Alliteration
Allusion
Personification
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The Outsiders: Poem Analysis