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This poem by Robert Frost explores the fleeting nature of beauty in nature and life. The poem reflects on the ephemeral quality of gold and the inevitable passage of time. It serves as a reminder that everything beautiful and precious eventually fades away.

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  1. Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963 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. Neatly paste the poem in the top center of page 22 of your notebook. 22

  2. Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963 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. Hue: A color or shade. (noun) Subside: To become less intense of to fade. (verb) Eden: The Garden of Eden is described in the Bible as the paradise in which the first humans, Adam and Eve, lived. However, after they disobeyed God they were forced to leave Eden, which caused them much grief.

  4. Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963 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.

  5. Nature’s first green is gold,

  6. Her hardest hue to hold.

  7. Her early leaf’s a flower;

  8. But only so an hour.

  9. Then leaf subsides to leaf.

  10. So Eden sank

  11. to grief,

  12. So dawn

  13. goes down to day.

  14. Nothing gold can stay.

  15. On page 22 of your writer’s notebook, Write a paragraph describing something you experienced that was very enjoyable, and ended too soon. Illustrate it.

  16. IDEAS FOR REFLECTION Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963 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. Identify the sentence fragments in the poem.

  17. Write your own “Nothing Gold Can Stay” poem. Your last two lines need to be the same couplet with which Robert Frost concludes his poem: So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

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