"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost by Frances Dewitt https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232 Use ACES writing to answer the tone or mood of one of the following poems. en-us 2017-11-11 04:12:10 UTC 2024-05-31 00:58:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Read this poem: fdewitt https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205854176 Nothing Gold Can Stay
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.

]]> 2017-11-11 04:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205854176 fdewitt https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205854427 2017-11-11 04:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205854427 "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost was published in 1923 in the Yale Review. PonyBoy recites it while he and Johnny are hiding at the abandoned church in Windrixville, Oklahoma. ANALYSIS: This poem is only eight lines and has an AA BB CC DD rhyme scheme. It contains metaphors, personification, symbolism, and imagery (imagery = see, hear, taste, touch, smell). fdewitt https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205854746 Poetry takes patience to read.  You have to read a poem 6,7,8 or more times to digest a poem.  

VOCABULARY
hues (are colors)
subsides (sinks, stops, ceases)
dawn (just before sunrise)
Eden (the garden of Adam and Eve)

ANALYSIS QUESTIONS
What are Frost's references to nature?
What color of seasons show newness?
What happens to flowers over time?  
What happens in Fall and what happens to the leaves and their colors?
What happened in the garden of Eden?  What does Eden symbolize?
What imagery does a sunrise or sunset symbolize?
What image does gold display?  What does gold symbolize?
What images does a flower display?  What does a flower symbolize?
What fades (in this poem and in LIFE)?
Why would Pony Boy recite this particular poem when he did?
How does the poem shift in tone or mood?  (Example, how does the poem begin and how does it end?)
What specific words show positive/optimistic images?
What specific words show negative/pessimistic/dark images?
What is Frost's overall message from this poem? 

]]> 2017-11-11 04:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205854746 "Nothing Gold Can Stay" A well-done student video of Robert Frost's poem (Seth Etchevarra) fdewitt https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205855083 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm2wKrR2uOU]]> 2017-11-11 04:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205855083 PonyBoy and Johnny watch the sunrise. PonyBoy recites Robert Frost's poem: fdewitt https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205856514 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOwPaC3ZaQQ]]> 2017-11-11 05:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fdewitt/bj271tegz232/wish/205856514