ROBERT FROST
“NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY”
In this poem, Frost uses allusions (a reference to someone or something known from any branch of knowledge,
culture, or history) to the biblical story of Adam and Eve and to a Greek myth about the loss of the Golden Age.
With these allusions, Frost suggests something about beauty, goodness, and evil.
“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 to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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