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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

__** "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. __** About Frost: **__


 * Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, CA on March 26, 1874.
 * At the age of 11, his father passed away due to tuberculosis.
 * He then moved with his mother and sister to Lawrence, Massachusetts.
 * He attended Lawrence High School where he would meet his future wife, Elinor White.
 * Frost attended Dartmouth University for several months before returning home to work.
 * His first poem, "My Butterfly; an Elegy", was published in The Independent and had great success.
 * In 1900, Frost and his family moved to a farm in New Hampshire where they stayed for 12 years.
 * It was a tough time for Frost but his writing career began to flourish.
 * In his first 40 years, he was unknown.
 * After he returned from England at the start of WWI, his career took off.
 * He won 4 Pulitzer Prizes and was a special guest at John F. Kennedy's inauguration.
 * He passed away on January 29, 1963 from complications with prostrate surgery.

__** Summary: **__ __** Analysis: **__ **__ Works Cited: __**
 * Begins by discussing Spring and its many colors
 * Nature if first gold but it does not last long, then turns gold
 * A leaf begins as a flower bud but eventually becomes a leaf
 * Frost tries to convey the theme that material objects do not last, but sentimental objects do
 * The most beautiful things in life often last the shortest
 * Speaker- Unknown, speaks in the third person as to not reveal themselves
 * Meter- Rhyming couplets of Iambic Trimeter
 * Rhyme Scheme- AABBCCDD
 * Metaphor- "green is gold"; "leaf's a flower"
 * Alliteration- "green", "gold"; "hardest", "hue", "hold"
 * Personification- Nature is referred to as "her"
 * Allusion- "Eden sank to grief"- this is an allusion to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve
 * Diction- "subsides" instead of "becomes"
 * //Bio.com. // A&E Networks Television n.d. Web. 14 Mar.2015.
 * //Poets.org //. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2015.
 * "Robert Frost Pictures, Images & Photos on Photobucket." //Photobucket //. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015.