Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Nothing Gold Can Stay is a brief, widely anthologized lyric poem by Robert Frost that meditates on the fleeting nature of beauty and innocence.

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instanceOf lyric poem
poem
author Robert Frost
awardedCollection Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
surface form: New Hampshire won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
collection New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReputation one of Robert Frost’s most famous short poems
firstPublishedIn New Hampshire
form short lyric
genre lyric poetry
imagery natural imagery
seasonal imagery
influenceOn popular culture
language English
length very short poem
lineCount 8
literaryPeriod Modernism
surface form: Modernist era
meter iambic trimeter with variations
notableLine Nothing Gold Can Stay self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nothing gold can stay
openingLine Nature’s first green is gold
poet Robert Frost
poeticDevices alliteration
assonance
metaphor
personification
publicationYear 1923
publisherOfCollection Henry Holt and Company
referencedIn The Outsiders
referencedInAuthor S. E. Hinton
rhymeScheme AABBCCDD
subjectMatter nature as metaphor for human experience
theme inevitability of change
loss of innocence
passage of time
transience of beauty
timePeriodOfComposition early 20th century
tone elegiac
meditative
usesAllusion Eden
usesContrast spring and decay
youth and age
usesSymbolism gold as symbol of early beauty
widelyAnthologized true

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