Nothing Gold Can Stay by Miss Cavalli

Nothing Gold Can Stay

vmcavalli — 2016-12-08 00:07:46 UTC

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.

Student #1

vmcavalli — 2016-12-08 00:10:09 UTC

The poem rhymes in pairs. For example, "gold" from line 1 and "hold" from line 2 rhyme.

Student #2

vmcavalli — 2016-12-08 00:13:26 UTC

Alliteration is used in line 1, "green is gold."

Student #3

vmcavalli — 2016-12-08 00:17:58 UTC

Alliteration is also used in line 2, "her hardest hue to hold."

Student #4

vmcavalli — 2016-12-08 00:18:35 UTC

I think that the author used alliteration to draw our attention to how young and new the plants are.

Exit Ticket (Student #5)

vmcavalli — 2016-12-08 00:25:16 UTC

This poem is about how nothing new and gold can stay that way. It will end up changing or being lost. Ponyboy and Johnny are young boys, but now that they have been involved in a murder and run away, they have grown up. The boys are no longer "gold" and innocent. They have been exposed to the real world and have stopped being "gold" (young).