![]() ![]() ![]() Literary Criticism of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" And like the gold of King Midas, the gold in these verses-the joy of youth and beauty-can never last. Instead of being all about the benjamins, this poem is more about gold as a symbol of youth and beauty. In other words, this poem is expansive, so be careful not to make early conclusions from the title. Short enough that it's easy to memorize, and hard to forget to begin with, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" covers everything from a tiny leaf, to the cycle of the sun, to the Garden of Eden, in only eight lines. It demonstrates one of the main reasons why its writer, Robert Frost, was able to create so many enduring poems: he had a knack for summing up the whole world in a few elegant little lines.įrost, one of America's (if not the world's) most beloved poets, wrote some very successful long poems, like "Home Burial" and "Mending Wall." But he's most famous for the poems "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," which are only a few lines longer than "Nothing Gold Can Stay." And it's his shortest works, poems like "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and "Fire and Ice"-eight and nine lines long, respectively-that prove that big things can indeed come in small packages. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is hard to describe in a nutshell, because, well, it's somewhat of a nutshell in itself. ![]()
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