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    Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" describes the inevitable changes brought by the passage of time through the metaphor of nature changing colors with the seasons. The poem uses imagery and personification to represent how nature transitions from vibrant green leaves in spring to the browns and reds of autumn. Ultimately, the poem conveys that nothing beautiful can last forever and all things must eventually fade or pass away.

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    Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" describes the inevitable changes brought by the passage of time through the metaphor of nature changing colors with the seasons. The poem uses imagery and personification to represent how nature transitions from vibrant green leaves in spring to the browns and reds of autumn. Ultimately, the poem conveys that nothing beautiful can last forever and all things must eventually fade or pass away.

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    Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" describes the inevitable changes brought by the passage of time through the metaphor of nature changing colors with the seasons. The poem uses imagery and personification to represent how nature transitions from vibrant green leaves in spring to the browns and reds of autumn. Ultimately, the poem conveys that nothing beautiful can last forever and all things must eventually fade or pass away.

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    Stylistic Analysis of Poetry

    Poetry
    Explication
    What is It is an analytical essay that comments
    on a poem’s elements and possible
    Poetry meanings.

    Explication? Allows you to break poems down in


    order to study their structure, form,
    language, pattern, and theme.

    The purpose of poetry analysis is to


    interpret the meaning of a poem and
    appreciate it on a deeper level.
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    Robert Frost - 1874-1963

    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.
    Poetry Explication Guide
    STEP 1 STEP 3
    Introduce the topic Explain the literary devices
    used in each line and the effect
    (the poem’s title, the author, and that the devices have on the
    the subject of the poem) meaning of the poem.

    STEP 2 STEP 4
    Brief summary of what the poet After you have analyzed the last
    uses to give the poem meaning. line of the poem, you should
    conclude the explication with a
    (literary devices) sentence that states the overall
    message of the poem.
    STEP 1
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    Robert Frost - 1874-1963
    In “Nothing Gold Can
    Nature’s first green is gold, Stay,” poet Robert Frost
    Her hardest hue to hold. describes how nature
    Her early leaf’s a flower; changes from one season
    But only so an hour. to another.
    Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    So Eden sank to grief,
    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay.
    STEP 2
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    Robert Frost - 1874-1963
    Frost’s use of imagery,
    Nature’s first green is gold, metaphor, personification,
    Her hardest hue to hold. and allusion allow the reader
    Her early leaf’s a flower; to grasp the inevitable change
    But only so an hour. that the passage of time
    Then leaf subsides to leaf. brings.
    So Eden sank to grief,
    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay.
    STEP 3
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    Robert Frost - 1874-1963 The poem begins with the
    image of leaves as they
    Nature’s first green is gold,
    first appear in the spring.
    Her hardest hue to hold.
    In line 1, the speaker uses
    Her early leaf’s a flower;
    But only so an hour.
    the word “gold” in an
    Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    effort to call to mind the
    So Eden sank to grief, typical colors of these
    So dawn goes down to day. leaves.
    Nothing gold can stay. 0 123456789
    STEP 4
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    Robert Frost - 1874-1963
    At first glance, Frost’s
    Nature’s first green is gold, poem appears to be
    Her hardest hue to hold. nothing more than a
    Her early leaf’s a flower; description of nature;
    But only so an hour. however, upon closer
    Then leaf subsides to leaf. examination, one can see
    So Eden sank to grief, that the speaker is
    So dawn goes down to day. actually lamenting.
    Nothing gold can stay.
    Your explication should display an
    orderly progression that goes
    chronologically line by line and
    stanza by stanza.

    TAKE NOTE!
    References:
    https://www.alamo.edu/siteassets/sac/about-sac/college-
    offices/writing-center/explication-of-a-poem-essay.pdf

    https://poemanalysis.com/robert-frost/nothing-gold-can-stay/

    https://www.astate.edu/a/global-initiatives/online/a-state-online-
    services/online-writing-center/resources/Poetry%20Explications.pdf

    https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/poetry-
    explications/
    Thank you!

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