Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay

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.

Blake B.
 * 1)  Line 1, Nature's first green is gold. This line can be interpretated many different ways. To me it means that the early golden sunrise.
 * 2) Line 1, this can also means the fresh life of plants. how they are new and beautiful.
 * 3) Line 2, sunrise ony last so long before the sun is fully up. This makes it hard to hold.
 * 4) Line 2, dealing with plants again, most plant life begins and ends. it is hard to hold.
 * 5) Line 3, The speaker is circling back to line 1, saying that her early leaf's a flower. Meaning that it is young and beautiful but withers away. Like blossoms in the spring replaced by leaves.
 * 6) Line 4, the speaker is using an hour to create the feeling of a short amount of time. An hour is short considering the 24 in a day.
 * 7) Line 5, leaf subsides to leaf means that the flower has subsided to a leaf. leaving all of its beauty behind.
 * 8) Line 6, Eden sank to grief is a refrence to the Garden of Eden sinking to grief when Adam and Eve ate off the forbidden tree. The beautiful surroundings around the flower slowly turn from gold to green.
 * 9) Line 7, the sun finally rises enough where everything goes from gold to green.
 * 10) Line 8, Nothing gold can stay, everything golden is only temporary. Everything has faded. The flower is gone, the golden is taken away by the rising sun. But it will happen again the next day.