The Truth In Gold
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 for an hour.
The leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, is a short poem that illustrates the changing force that time evokes in all things, great or small. Even the structure of the work itself, is a representation of the idea it brings to light. Robert Frost opens the senses for a short pilgrimage to the window of time and the subjects that time governs. The poem shows that nothing, not even the concrete elements of nature, can stand against the abrasive sand storm of time; flowers that bloom and civilizations that develop will all be washed in a sea of their own longevity. The author does not dwell on one line, nor does he bring up the sadness that ensues after a great light is dulled. Frost is simply stating that the cycle of birth and death is an…show more content… “Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so for an hour” (D 245) sheds light on something like a flower, or a person, coming into themselves and just starting out. Frost is indicating that the start of somethings in life, which maybe the best, only lasts for a limited time. The “early leaf” means the youth of an idea, a person, or place and the awareness of all the possibilities the beginning can hold. Perhaps the brevity and loftiness of youth is what makes it have the sweetest looks. The further a body goes down the slopes of aging, the more it wishes it could turn the corner and start fresh in the peak of its existence. These golden youth stages are subject to the vicious grips of time, and truly nothing can stay innocent forever, because time is a rough line that measures everything from the Earth to its
