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Outsiders Project ~ Amy Chen, Period 1, Corlew

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Robert Frost

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Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Author: Robert Frost

The poem by Robert Frost found in The Outsiders on page 77 in the Puffin paperback novel.

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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.

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--> My/ Story Interpretation of the Poem

+ "Nature's first green is gold" and "her early leaf's a flower"

= Description of the natural state of the innocence of a child's mind in it's early years, how children take pleasure in simplicity, are worry free, etc.

+ "Her hardest hue to hold" and "but only so an hour"

= Reference to short lasting of the innocent perspective of the child, and how the mind changes as it ages, understanding new things as ideas dawn upon them.

+ "Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day"

= The innocence escapes the mind and new understandings come with worries, simple things don't satisfy and the child becomes like any other, once a flower and now just a simple leaf on a tree, no longer beautiful of mind or unique in it's simple patterns.

+ "Nothing gold can stay"

= Anything pure, simple, and innocent cannot last in the world.

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