NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

BY ROBERT FROST

NOOR ANIS SYAKIRIN MOHD AFFANDI

NORSARA AKMA MOHD NUSIR
NURFAZILA MOHD ZAM ZAM
NUR ADIBAH ABDUL LATIF
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
BY
ROBERT FROST
 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
 SYNOPSIS
• When you are born and are a child you are gold or innocent
and pure.
• You are unaware of the world as a child. Your childhood is the
hardest thing to hold on to.
• Childhood is the first part of your life. But it only last a while.
• As you grow up you loose that innocence, you learn to be
strong and confident.
• You face hardships throughout your life. You begin to loose the
golden innocence of your childhood and build a layer of
confidence and security as you go into adulthood to fight and
protect yourself from the world.
• Sooner or later you're going to die. So don't
take life for granted. Like the poem says "So
dawn goes down to day" means when your
gold you a kid and everything is new to you.
• When you get older you lose your innocence
and that is day; when nothing is new anymore.
• Youth doesn't last forever. Also it means to
cherish your life because one day we will die
 THEMES
• The Fleetingness of Youth
• Mortality and The Shortness of
Life
• Loss of Innocence
 The Fleetingness of Youth

• In each of these cases, the poem emphasizes

the beauty of youth but also its fleeting nature:
• "Nature's first green" is also the "hardest hue
to hold", the earliest leaf is a beautiful flower
but "only so an hour", and the "dawn goes
down to day".
• Youth, while one of life's most beautiful times,
cannot be held onto.
 Mortality and The Shortness of Life

• The "cycle of life" is alluded to in the poem

and although in its literal sense the poem
discusses only the life-cycle of the leaf and of
the day, the reader is forced to look past this
and at the cycle of their own life.
• Its show in the line "then leaf subsides to leaf."
One leaf is replaced by another just as
newborns replace those who grow old and die
 Loss of Innocence

• Is a tendency to associate youth with

innocence and as a result to pick this theme
out of the same references to dawn, the "early
leaf" and Nature's early colors