Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Nothing Gold Can Stay
By Robert Frost

• PowerPoint By Katie DeLuka
• Olivia Powell

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Nothing Gold Can Stay would be a good, quality
poem for the Glencoe Textbook because it
illustrates many diverse poetic devices and its
short length would be able to hold the attention
of high school sophomores.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay

• was written by Robert Frost.
• was originally published in Frosts 1923 Volume,
  New Hampshire.
• is one of Frosts many famous poems alongside
  Fire and Ice and The Road Not Taken.

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Rhythm

• the rhythm of this poem is mostly iambic
  trimeter.
• Natures first green is gold,
• Her hardest hue to hold.
• Her early leafs a flower
• But only so an hour.

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Rhyme Scheme

• the rhyme scheme in this poem is AABBCCDD its
  lines form four pairs of couplets.
• Natures first green is gold, A
• Her hardest hue to hold. A
• Her early leafs a flower B
• But only so and hour. B

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Sound Device Alliteration

• Her hardest hue to hold.
• Her early leafs a flower
• So dawn goes down to day.
• In lines two, three and seven the author utilizes
  alliteration.

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Sound Device Assonance

• Then leaf subsides to leaf.
• So Eden sank to grief,
• In lines five and six, Frost employs assonance in
  the form of the long e sound.

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Figurative Language Allusion

• So Eden sank to grief,
• In the sixth line, Frost is alluding to The
  Garden of Eden, a setting of a biblical story.

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Figurative Language Personification

• Natures first green is gold,
• Her hardest hue to hold.
• In these lines of the poem, nature, a non-human
  thing, is said to be holding the color gold.

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Figurative Language Metaphor

• An example of a metaphor in this poem is
• Her early leafs a flower
• Here, Frost is comparing two alike things the
  leaf and the flower.

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Poetic Device Imagery

• So dawn goes down to day.
• Natures first green is gold,
• Frost is appealing to the readers sense of sight.

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

• would be a perfect poem for this textbook because
  of its consistent rhythm and rhyme, ideal length,
  and numerous examples of poetic devices such as

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Allusion
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Imagery