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Robert Frost

Robert Frost. “ Nothing Gold Can Stay ” & “ Design ”. How does “ Nothing Gold Can Stay ” and “ Design ” reflect modernism?. Essential Question. Born in San Francisco Moved to Massachusetts- identifies with rural New England. Scholar, farmer, professor, poet

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Robert Frost

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  1. Robert Frost “Nothing Gold Can Stay” & “Design”

  2. How does “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “Design” reflect modernism? Essential Question

  3. Born in San Francisco • Moved to Massachusetts- identifies with rural New England. • Scholar, farmer, professor, poet • Lived in England for a few years- met Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and his close friend Edward Thomas • Recited “The Gift Outright” at JFK’s inauguration. Life

  4. Setting- New England and its peculiarities • Used traditional meters with common vernacular (Regular verse made new!) • Used irony and quizzical understatement • Darkness was the counter-theme of the cheeriness of his poems. Literary Significance

  5. Title • Paraphrase • Figurative language • Attitude • Shifts • Title • Theme “TPFASTT”

  6. “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

  7. “Design”

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