poetry

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.

Taken from http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_frost/poems/529

RESPONSES
1. I picked this poem because I like Robert Frost and this poem is calm. It is also short and simple with the theme that everything that is good only lasts for a little while. I like this theme because even though it is sort of sad, it also has the idea that you should enjoy things while they last. It also has a really nice rhythm and pattern and sounds wonderful.
2. The title is the last line of the poem. It's significance is that it underlines and strengthens the idea of the theme that I mentioned above.
3. This poem has personification because it turns nature into 'her' and gives nature actions such as "to hold"(2). Another example of personification is "Eden sank into grief"(6). The personification helps the reader relate to nature and adds to the theme. It also makes alliteration possible by using 'her'. The poem also uses alliteration: "Her hardest hue to hold"(2). I think the alliteration makes the poem sound clean and pretty. The rhyme scheme is AABBCCDD which helps the poem flow smoothly.
4. To me the tone seems calm. None of the words are harsh words and they all seem smooth and pretty to me. Some examples are 'gold', and 'leaf'. Also the poem gives a calming effect in line seven: "So dawn goes down to day"(7). The rhyme scheme adds to the tone as well.