“Poems” GOLD by: Donald Hall

Arranged by : Group 3
 Group 3
• Adrian Ammar Rozin
• Annisa Qurani Ginting
• M. Aditya Syauqi
• Nadya Juliani Aditia
• Raden Ocktaviani F. R.
• Sad Bagus Ketut AK
• Tengku Chairany
 Table of contents
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Theme Topic Social Function
The Theme of the Poem What does the poem tell Social function has the same
about direction as the goal

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Structure Language features
The structure of the Poem Language features can consist
of figure of speech, language
style, diction, and others
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Moral value
Every poem must have a
message that we can take
 01. The theme of this poem is about
love and memories.

02.
Donald Hall’s ‘Gold’ is a poem about
love and memories. Hall describes his
sweet old memories stored in
metaphorical “identical rooms” of his
body. The room where they spend
their time together is one such place to
03. revisit those old days. In a way, this
piece also theorizes love to include
To express his deep longing for the inseparable devotion as the poet
love he had experienced. ponders over how lovers become part
of each other.
04. Structure
● Line
● Stanza
● Rhyme
● Line break
 05. Language Features
•Metaphor : Tiny identical rooms inside our bodies.
•Assonance : The repetition of "ai" and "i" in the line
“tiny identical rooms inside our bodies.“
•Repetition : The word gold is always repeated.

The moral value that we can take from the poem is to

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always create good memories, because this is in line
with the saying "people change, but memories don't".
Carve beautiful memories because this is what you will
always remember in the future and also to appreciate
more what we currently have.
Thank you!!!
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