Analysis of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost - Close Reading by Dana Gioia

Robert Frost's short poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is so moving and memorable that the reader is shocked at how short it is. How does the poem acquire such power in so few lines? And what does Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" mean? Poet Dana Gioia gives a brief talk on the poem, reading, analyzing, and discussing the short masterpiece.

This video is an analysis of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. In it I briefly explore the biography of poet Robert Frost and look at how the life of Robert Frost informed the poem. For more videos on poetry you can subscribe to my YouTube channel:    / @danagioia6943  

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
by Robert Frost

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.

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