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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay. By Robert Frost. PowerPoint By Katie DeLuka & Olivia Powell.

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

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  1. Nothing Gold Can Stay By Robert Frost PowerPoint By Katie DeLuka & Olivia Powell

  2. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” would be a good, quality poem for the Glencoe Textbook because it illustrates many diverse poetic devices and its short length would be able to hold the attention of high school sophomores.

  3. “Nothing Gold Can Stay”… • was written by Robert Frost. • was originally published in Frost’s 1923 Volume, New Hampshire. • is one of Frost’s many famous poems alongside “Fire and Ice” and “The Road Not Taken.”

  4. Rhythm • the rhythm of this poem is mostly iambic trimeter. Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.

  5. Rhyme Scheme • the rhyme scheme in this poem is AABBCCDD; its lines form four pairs of couplets. Nature’s first green is gold, A Her hardest hue to hold. A Her early leaf’s a flower; B But only so and hour. B

  6. Sound Device: Alliteration • Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; • So dawn goes down to day. In lines two, three and seven the author utilizes alliteration.

  7. Sound Device: Assonance • Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, In lines five and six, Frost employs assonance in the form of the long “e” sound.

  8. Figurative Language: Allusion • So Eden sank to grief, In the sixth line, Frost is alluding to The Garden of Eden, a setting of a biblical story.

  9. Figurative Language: Personification Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. • In these lines of the poem, nature, a non-human thing, is said to be holding the color gold.

  10. Figurative Language: Metaphor • An example of a metaphor in this poem is: Her early leaf’s a flower; • Here, Frost is comparing two alike things: the leaf and the flower.

  11. Poetic Device: Imagery • So dawn goes down to day. • Nature’s first green is gold, Frost is appealing to the reader’s sense of sight.

  12. “Nothing Gold Can Stay”… • would be a perfect poem for this textbook because of its consistent rhythm and rhyme, ideal length, and numerous examples of poetic devices such as: • Alliteration • Assonance • Allusion • Personification • Metaphor • Imagery

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