Nothing Gold Can Stay

Sara Scully English

6/18/15 Period 4

Final Revision

Why I chose this post:

I chose this piece of writing because it was the first thing I ever worked on in English. I thought that revising this piece would really show everything I learned this quarter. I include literary elements, correct citation, and talk about themes and motifs. I wrote about the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost and interpreted the meaning of the poem. I mostly talked about literary elements, but now I added so much more. I also made my piece significantly longer.

Revised Piece:

 Nothing Gold Can Stay

In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, the author is saying that nothing lasts forever and you should always appreciate what you have. Everything ends at one point, it all eventually leaves. It uses a metaphor of a flower to explain what is happening, “Her early leaf’s a flower; but only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf..” (Frost 3). This is explaining how things at the time may seem good, but soon things are going to get bad. Another part of this poem is when it says “ So dawn goes down to day,” (Frost 7). This is trying to say that things change no matter what you try to do. Dawn will always turn to day. One thing will eventually turn to another no matter what. This poet is getting the message across through metaphors like “Nature's first green is gold” (Frost 1) and “Her early leaf’s a flower...” (Frost 3). Nature’s first leaves are not actually flowers, green is not actually gold,  but they seem likes flowers because they are beautiful,  and green seems like gold because it is worthy of gold. This author uses personification because the author is trying to make nature seem like a human being by saying things like “her” in the text. This author also uses repetition, as the poem’s last line is “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, which is the same as the title. The theme of this poem is “Nothing good lasts forever”, which is essentially the same as the title, but gets the message across more clearly. Saying that, the motif is “Nothing gold Can Stay” because it is hinting at the theme and is recurring in the poem. This poem uses many literary elements and the themes and motifs are very obvious. Overall, I can clearly interpret the meaning of this poem.

About the Author:

Hello! My name is Sara U. Scully.  I am in 7th grade at Dewitt Middle school, and I really enjoy English Class. I would say I improved greatly this year in my writing. I learned so many useful writing tools to help myself be a better writer, and reader. I can now recognize things like personification, repetition, etc. in my writing and in others. I still have many things to improve on in my writing, and I think I will throughout the rest of my academic year. I would like to thank Ms. Cernera for everything she has taught me and making my 7th grade English year so enjoyable.