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.
In Nothing Gold Can Stay, Frost talks of the nature of things that makes them precious. It is the desire of human beings to hold on to things that are momentary or short lived, for example when you see a beautiful rainbow. "Nature’s first green" is symbolic of childhood which we cannot hold on to and it quickly vanishes. "Early leaf’s flower" tells us that soon childhood flowers into youth. But youth too does not last. Eden is symbolic of adulthood that leads to old age and the sunset stands for death.
In Nothing Gold Can Stay, Frost talks of the nature of things that makes them precious. It is the desire of human beings to hold on to things that are momentary or short lived, for example when you see a beautiful rainbow. "Nature’s first green" is symbolic of childhood which we cannot hold on to and it quickly vanishes. "Early leaf’s flower" tells us that soon childhood flowers into youth. But youth too does not last. Eden is symbolic of adulthood that leads to old age and the sunset stands for death.
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