Talk:Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)

message: I don't know what the format/style should be for this, or if it should be added at all, so I'll just mention it in the talk page.
The last three lines of this poem appear in an episode of the Simpsons, spoken by Sea Captain, while Bart gives a Viking Funeral for his toys (and thus his childhood).
I think the name of the episode is "Fat Man And Little Boy."
24.216.230.138 04:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Outsiders should definitely be mentioned, but let's not turn this into another Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, please.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JDCAce (talk • contribs) 18:03, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference in popular culture 

message: The article is missing the poem's publication date and also the name of the collection in which it was published. --GentlemanGhost 23:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article states that it was written in the 1850s, which is quite impossible due to Robert Frost's birth occurring in the 1870s. It was published in its present form (8 lines) in 1923, but was written in various forms prior to that, but certainly not in the 1850s for an obvious reason. GoPokes1968 (talk) 15:18, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing 

message: and should be re-organized (possibly with external links to noted interpretations) or removed completely. I will do the latter in three days.Gary Joseph 03:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  General meaning section 

message: I recently wrote a line-by-line interpretation of it. I passed it by my professor, who is published author and professor of English at CSUN, and he said it hit the nail on the head, as in it is the "chief, classic interpretation" of Frost's poem.
# "Nature's first green is gold" — Gold means valuable, and I think "nature's first green" is refering to youth. All plants and fruits when they are first rising into being are green. Somebody that is "green" is said to be new.  Here's gold's proper semantic express is "value". "Nature's first green" refers to youth. All incipient plants and fruits are green.
# "Her hardest hue to hold" — Youth is the hardest quality for things born of nature to hold on to.
# "Her early leaf's a flower" — The early leafs, being youngness. A flower, being something beautiful. That is to say, beauty is spent on the young.
# "But only so an hour" — "Only" implies that an hour is a short amount of time. Youth and beauty can be held for but a small length of time.
# "Then leaf subsides to leaf" — 
# "So Eden sank to grief" — Eden is the place where beauty and youth were to reign everlasting, yet, even Eden was robbed of this quality. This example brings forth the ultimate extreme, and shows the message to be true in any circumstance.
# "So dawn goes down to day" — When the sun goes from dawn to day, it goes upwards. Frost means to call attention to the word down, so that "dawn" and "day" may be more thoroughly inspected. Indeed, "dawn" and "day" carry figurative meaning. In Greek Mythology, when Oedipus was confronted by the Riddle of the Sphinx, "dawn" was compared to youth, while "day" was compared to middle-age. In that, Frost means to convey that youth will fade just as the sun goes from dawn to day.
# "Nothing gold can stay" — Nothing can stay young and beautiful forever.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sytar (talk • contribs) 01:24, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line by line interpretation 

message: (I took this out of the main article --- it has no references, and is all opinion. Unless references can be cited for interpretations, they shouldn't be used 138.38.217.149 (talk) 10:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In The Outsiders (novel) by S.E. Hinton Johnny writes in a letter to Ponyboy that Frost meant that gold was like childhood. This is why his dying word to Pony are "Stay gold". Johnny means that he should keep the joy of childhood inside him and never let it go.
The poem is simply based on nature.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.37.13.149 (talk) 20:26, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symbolic words 

message: This section seems to consist entirely of original research. If it cannot be sourced, it should be removed. --Katerenka (talk) 03:34, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Analysis section 

message: Charles Berger writes in his book on Robert Frost that the meter in this poem is trochaic (p. 75). Any thoughts? SoyseñorsnibblesDígame 01:08, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meter 

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