"Nothing gold can stay.
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 today.
Nothing gold can stay."
Nothing gold can stay. A captivating poem that many people ponder and wonder what the meaning to "Nothing gold can stay" truly means.
This is a poem I have constantly been intrigued by since I first read it when I was 9, when I was first reading the poem in a book I read. What does the poem truly mean? In my mind, gold, is signifying youth. When we are young, we are pure, wholesome beings. We haven't yet been tainted with the problems, diseases, and disasters that comes with age and getting older. When we are young we are completely pure and our minds are valuable, just like gold. By saying "nothing gold can stay" I believe that it is referring to the fact that as we get older, we are faced with harsh times and hardships and suddenly that innocence that we used to possess that made us so pure as a child, is being broken down and slowly being tainted due to what we face in life. And no person is able to avoid the difficult times that life deals to us. Everyone faces hardships, and as Robert Frost states, this state of "gold" is nature's "hardest hue to hold." I believe that, that signifies how hard it is for us as humans to hold onto our childhood innocence.
Each one of us as we grow older, at some point in our lives long to go back to our childhood, or hold on to the small bit of childhood innocence that we still have. But that is a task that is so unbelievably difficult, relating back to the fact that this is mother natures "hardest hue to hold."
When Robert Frost references to Eden sinking to grief, I believe that he is trying to put across the idea that people are slowly falling and with age we are constantly losing that spark and light that made our lives amazing. When he relates to Eden sinking, it is to my belief that he is referencing to the biblical site of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man within that garden. As Eve and Adam failed to follow the orders of God, and became more tainted as people, so do we all as humans as we grow and progress as people, we begin to fall more and more and deplete our society, losing that innocence that made us so gold as human beings.
In the final sentences of the poem, "So dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay" I believe that Robert Frost is stating that another day of our lives is lost. We are now one more day closer to losing the innocence that makes us gold completely. Little by little, day by day we are continuing to lose this about ourselves, leading to the main point of this poem, nothing gold can stay.
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 today.
Nothing gold can stay."
Nothing gold can stay. A captivating poem that many people ponder and wonder what the meaning to "Nothing gold can stay" truly means.
This is a poem I have constantly been intrigued by since I first read it when I was 9, when I was first reading the poem in a book I read. What does the poem truly mean? In my mind, gold, is signifying youth. When we are young, we are pure, wholesome beings. We haven't yet been tainted with the problems, diseases, and disasters that comes with age and getting older. When we are young we are completely pure and our minds are valuable, just like gold. By saying "nothing gold can stay" I believe that it is referring to the fact that as we get older, we are faced with harsh times and hardships and suddenly that innocence that we used to possess that made us so pure as a child, is being broken down and slowly being tainted due to what we face in life. And no person is able to avoid the difficult times that life deals to us. Everyone faces hardships, and as Robert Frost states, this state of "gold" is nature's "hardest hue to hold." I believe that, that signifies how hard it is for us as humans to hold onto our childhood innocence.
Each one of us as we grow older, at some point in our lives long to go back to our childhood, or hold on to the small bit of childhood innocence that we still have. But that is a task that is so unbelievably difficult, relating back to the fact that this is mother natures "hardest hue to hold."
When Robert Frost references to Eden sinking to grief, I believe that he is trying to put across the idea that people are slowly falling and with age we are constantly losing that spark and light that made our lives amazing. When he relates to Eden sinking, it is to my belief that he is referencing to the biblical site of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man within that garden. As Eve and Adam failed to follow the orders of God, and became more tainted as people, so do we all as humans as we grow and progress as people, we begin to fall more and more and deplete our society, losing that innocence that made us so gold as human beings.
In the final sentences of the poem, "So dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay" I believe that Robert Frost is stating that another day of our lives is lost. We are now one more day closer to losing the innocence that makes us gold completely. Little by little, day by day we are continuing to lose this about ourselves, leading to the main point of this poem, nothing gold can stay.