by Adewale Atewogbade

Created on: May 31, 2009   Last Updated: June 02, 2009

This is my first encounter with Robert Frost and this piece. From a layman's point of view, the theme of this poem seems to be a strong support of an argument that everything in nature is transient, in nature.

To translate Nothing gold can stay in layman's terms it could have read as follows:

-Nature's first green is gold,

Everything in life starts with a big bang

-Hardest hue to hold

This very beginning is momentary

-Her early leafs a flower

Flowers attract virtually all manner of admirers to the plant (nature) not the green leaves

-But only so an hour

The bloom soon fades as flowers become fruit or fall off the plant

-The leaf subsides to leaf

Everything in life soon succumbs, or dies or ceases to exist or simply becomes another boring act.

-So Eden sank to grief

Even the glorious Garden of Eden did not last long, showing that our fate is sealed from day one.

-So dawn goes to day

Time and tide waits for no one. The moment you rise, your day is at an end.

-Nothing gold can stay

Therefore, brothers and sisters, take my words for it "No condition is permanent." Nature is in a state of flux. Things change every microsecond.

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