Analyzing Poetry Day 4- "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

Analyzing Poetry

Over the next 4 days, you will be analyzing four poems. Some are short and some are longer, either way, when we look closely at them, you will find that they have a lot to say!

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1st Read- Read through the poem and react- what do you think the title means? What situation is described? What are your first impressions of the poem?

2nd Read- Read through the poem and answer the 4 questions in your packet.

3rd Read- Read through the poem a 3rd time and analyze three metaphors and their meaning. Determine the theme of the poem and how they author conveys his message.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

By: Robert Frost

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.