What is "gold" referring to in the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"? (hint-it is a metaphor!) "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." HEL

The Gold Robert Frost refers to is the Gold of the seasons, and the purity of life. The gold of the sunsets, and the gold of the flowers, and the autumns crisp leaves soon die out with the birth of bitter frozen Earth and winter. The Metaphor "Nothing Gold can stay" means, the beauty of life and Earths most precious seasons, may not stay, but will hide its life and "golden" nature with in the dawn of winter.

Hope this helps ^_^

PS. I love this poem Frost is one of my favorite poets.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)