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