Analysis: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nothing Gold Can Stay seems to be more about nature. While Abandoned Farmhouse is more about family. The poem Abandoned Farmhouse has personification, which Nothing Gold Can Stay doesn't use. In the second paragraph of Abandoned Farmhouse, Ted Kooser wrote, "It was lonely here, says the narrow country road". He also wrote," Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole." Which makes the poem seem a little darker and lonelier to me. In Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost wrote, " Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold, Her early leaf's a flower; but only so an hour." Which led me to thinking this poem seems happier and brighter. Nothing Gold Can Stay uses a rhyming pattern.