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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [ 1 ] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .
First published as number 208 in the verse collection Hesperides (1648), the poem extols the notion of carpe diem, a philosophy that recognizes the brevity of life and the need to live for and in the moment. The phrase originates in Horace's Ode 1.11.
In addition to the list of first lines which link to the poems' texts, the table notes each poem's publication in several of the most significant collections of Dickinson's poetry—the "manuscript books" created by Dickinson herself before her demise and published posthumously in 1981; the seven volumes of poetry published posthumously from ...
In Greek Mythology, when Oedipus was confronted by the Riddle of the Sphinx, "dawn" was compared to youth, while "day" was compared to middle-age. In that, Frost means to convey that youth will fade just as the sun goes from dawn to day. "Nothing gold can stay" — Nothing can stay young and beautiful forever.
Nothing Gold Can Stay may refer to: "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (poem), a poem by American poet Robert Frost; Nothing Gold Can Stay, a 1999 album by New Found Glory; Nothing Gold Can Stay (short story collection), a 2013 short story collection by Ron Rash; Episode 11 of Containment in 2016, named after the Frost poem
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.