So just as the Garden of Eden did not last very long neither does youth. This poem is also talking about how childhood does not last forever. I know this because it says, “Nature’s first green is gold”. When I think of the first green I think of birth because it is the first time you have seen the Earth. The theme of Nothing Gold Can Stay is to stay young as long as possible because once it is gone it is gone.
I will be giving my own ideal argument on the way the theme relates with my reading literary experience and personal insight. In the short eight lined poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” written by Robert Frost, he starts out by painting a picture theme of spring by using symbols of green and gold.“Nature’s first green is gold.” (Clugston, 2010). Here the point is to take in the beauty and feeling of nature and beautiful spring. According to Clugston, (2010) the color green is nature symbolizing birth-new beginning and gold in relation with perfection. For those that have experienced all four seasons and when Spring comes it can be related to a new birth of life.
In The Lottery, Jackson focuses on the destructiveness of a time-honored tradition. One thing we must be mindful of is that a particular tradition such as the lottery may loose its meaning or purpose over time. The title of the short story misguides the reader into thinking that the story is going to be about winning a prize or sum of money. One does not suspect that the lottery in this community is actually a drawing for death. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.” (The Lottery, 247) Jackson begins the story describing the scenery before the lottery.
The reader can also see that “flow’r” is differentiated from “flower”. This difference in spelling hints there must be a different meaning. Upon researching it will have been found to just been an accent spelling, which could also mean Dorothy Parker could have had an accent back when the poem was written. In the rest of the first stanza, Dorothy uses imagery to tell the reader how the flower was presented. “Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet- One Perfect Rose”.
The second line, "Her hardest hue to hold", describes how fast springtime and all the beauty is over so quickly. The next line, "Her early leafs a flower", is again limning the beautiful essence of early springtime. But the succeeding line, "But only so an hour", shows how the inevitable end of spring comes very soon after its beginning. "Then leaf subsides to leaf" is the next line which literally denotes the change from spring to fall and the falling leaves in fall. The next line, "So Eden sank to grief" , is telling how the beauty that was in spring has subsided to the cold winter.
And "Nothing Gold Can Stay" reminds me that not even nature has perfection forever, and to live life to the fullest with those I love most, because life is brief, just like the "early flower." First, we look at "Road." Frost speaks of a "yellow wood" leading the reader to believe it is autumn, but also the color yellow is associated with brightness and joy. Frost wrote this poem after he moved to England, when his life had reached a "mid-point," so we can infer his use of "autumn woods" is a metaphor for the beginning of our waning years. So the traveler is in front of a fork in the road, deciding which path to choose.
Right away were able to visualize a rose but not the typical rose that we see so abundantly, this rose is disfigured and inadequate. Throughout the first stanza were given descriptive terms to further reinforce those images that the speaker invokes with words like meager, sparse, marred, etc. These aren’t the typical adjectives one would use to describe the beauty of a rose. Initially I’m brought to wonder what exactly the speaker is trying to convey. Are we describing a rose or something entirely different?
In one of his letters to his brother Theo, Van Gogh said, “You may know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way”. When someone observes his oil painting Two Cut Sunflowers it makes the viewer realize how passionate he was about these flowers. He was a Post Impressionist painter and his use of vivid colors evokes an emotional response in the viewer. The language of art is truly amazing it has the power to express a myriad of emotions without the use of a single word. Van Gogh set his wilted sunflowers which are painted in shades of yellow against a complementary blue background.
Explain How The Rossetti Siblings Attempt to Convey Intense Emotion in the Two Poems? In both of the Rossetti siblings’ poems they use expressions to display intense emotion. In Christina’s poem the feelings are very positive, however, in her brother, Dante Gabriel’s, poem the emotions are quite the opposite. In ‘A Birthday’ the main body of the poem is filled with comparisons, the first stanza is describing the feelings in the narrator’s heart using references to the natural environment, ‘ My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a watered shoot.’ The last two lines of the stanza show that the emotions she is feeling are even more intense than these wonderful examples. She then explains why; ‘Because my love is come to me.’ The emotion that she is feeling is love, and she is suggesting that it is greater than the emotion she feels for other wondrous things.
HE finds it difficult to capture the essence of nature and any attempts are synthetic. Nature invites and intrigue’s him, but after observing its beauty, it leaves him questioning and sometimes pains him: ‘The glory invites me, yet it leaves me scorning’. ‘Words’, instead of describing nature’s beauty, depicts Thomas’ plea with the English language to allow him to portray the beauty of nature he observes. He makes direct appeal to the words: ‘Will you choose’, ‘choose’ suggests that the words have a mind of their own and that they are able to make decisions for themselves. The poem consists of free verse with irregularities which further suggests that the words have a mind of their own, both unpredictable and uncontrollable.