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Robert Frost

Robert Frost. Major American Poet 1874-1963. Nothing Gold Can Stay. 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.

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Robert Frost

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  1. Robert Frost Major American Poet 1874-1963

  2. Nothing Gold Can Stay 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.

  3. Nothing Gold Can Stay • Published 1923 • Yale Review • 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry • What does the poem really mean? • What statement is Frost making about nature, humanity, life…?

  4. This Too Shall Pass • Material wealth and possessions • Situations/conditions that are positive/negative • WILL ALL GO AWAY WITH TIME • LIFE IS FLEETING! • Origin: • Medieval Persian Sufi poets • Fable of a Great King • Transcribed on a Ring • POWER: • make a HAPPY man SAD • make a SAD man HAPPY

  5. This Too Shall Pass • Origin: • Psalm 57:1 • “Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.” • Jewish Folklore (ring, after experiencing Holocaust) • Abraham Lincoln used in a speech (1859)

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