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“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.

1.       What do you think Robert Frost is trying to say?

2.    How do the events in the poem apply to the events or characters in the book?

3.  Do you think this is suppose to be a sad poem?  Why do you think that way?