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Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost- Worksheet

Building Background: Look at the images on the PPT and answer


the following questions using the quotation below:

All good things must come to an end. Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Do you agree or disagree with this quotation? Why?


2. What do these images refer to? How are they related to the
quotation above?

Nothing Gold Can Stay

1 Natures first green is gold,

Her hardest hue* to hold. Hue: Color

Her early leafs a flower;

4 But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides* to leaf. Subside: Die down, diminish

So Eden* sank to grief, Eden: Heaven

So dawn goes down to day.

8 Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost, 1874-1963

Comprehension:

A) Read the poem very quickly, identify the literary elements in


the poem and complete the table using these literary
elements:

Literary Example
Element
Speaker
(point of view)

Setting
(Time and
place)

1
Theme(s)

Tone
(poets
attitude)

Mood
(General
atmosphere)

B) Read the poem again, identify the poetic devices in the


poem and comment on how they contribute to the overall
meaning of the poem:

a) Rhyme Scheme:

b) Imagery:
Lets Remember:

Imagery: Mental
c) Metaphor:
images created
using five senses
d) Alliteration: Allusion: A short
reference to other
works, history, art,
religion etc.
e) Personification:
Paradox:
Contradictory
f) Allusion: concepts that reveal
a
hidden/unexpected
g) Paradox: truth

h) Symbol:

i) Repetition:

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C) Read the poem again and answer the following questions
using textual references:
1. How does the length of the poem contribute to the meaning?

2. What does the speaker mean when he says So Eden sank to grief
in line 6?

3. How does the speaker create shift in the poem?

4. How does word choice (subside, go down etc.) affect the poem?

5. What do you think is the message the speaker wants to give to the
readers?

6. After reading the poem, have you changed your ideas about the
quotation All good things must come to an end? If so, how?

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