Thinking about the meaning to a poem can be challenging. The poem in “The Outsiders,” by S.E. Hinton, is one of those poems that takes awhile to figure out. Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is the poem Ponyboy tells Johnny while they are watching the remarkable sunset outside the church.
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
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
Once Ponyboy told Johnny this poem, Johnny started thinking about this poem and what it meant and how it relates to them. Also it reveals that Ponyboy reads a lot more than the other greasers. Yet he never really understood this poem.
I think this poem is about someone‘s life because everyone is born innocent then sometime in their life they lose their innocence. The line, “So Eden sank to grief”, is telling you the loss of someone’s innocence. Also, the last line is telling you the “death” of a person.
Looking at the fist and last line, they relate to one another. Nature’s first green is gold and nothing gold can stay, means that you are gold or young and you can’t stay gold or young forever. You can loose your innocence in life.
really like how you gave a lot of examples and used the characters in this.
ReplyDeleteI like how you used the poem. I would have never thought of using that. You could have related your self to the story a little more but over all it was good.
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