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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.