What Does This Poem Mean to you?

natures first green is gold-- its saying that when like flwers are blooming, they're beautiful.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief, ---- its saying that as the flower is going away, eden is becoming more and more upset.

So dawn goes down to day.---- its saying that sunsets are beautiful but it dosnt last very long and goes away.

Nothing gold can stay.--- everything beautiful comes to an end one point in time and you should enjoy what you have, while you have it.

Hello,

I'm a big fan of Mr. Frost's work. I believe that the subject of this poem is the simple Forsythia bush, which first comes back from winter dormancy with an abundance of beautiful golden yellow flowers before there are any green leaves. Then, the flowers fade and are replaced by ordinary leaves, which gather energy so the plant can repeat the process the next year. Many of Mr. Frost's poems took a commonplace or prosaic thing, such as a path, a flower, a bush, or some other natural thing, and turned them into symbols for the passage of time, the aftermaths of choices made and not made, the hard and often bitter (and often sweet) lessons life can teach us. I hope this helps.

I think this poem refers to the fact that youth and "newness" don't last. The poem is saying that when something just starts, whether it's a human life or a sunset, it's beautiful and glorious; then grief and age set in to change things. The symbols for this newness in the poem are "gold" "Eden" and "flower." The gold leaf gets older and becomes a regular color of green; the flower turns into a regular leaf, and Adam and Eve messed up and were cast out of the Garden of Eden.

That's just my interpretation. I'm not a literature professor or anything, but this answer should help get you through your early morning English class tomorrow!

With an e e cummings poem, saying "This is what it means to me" is like trying to nail Jello to a tree. This poem has always seemed very pro-feminist, or at least anti anti-feminist. It talks about independent thinking to me. Effie (a name that sounds suspiciously like the word "iffy") apparently never thought for herself and all that's left of her crumbly brain is a bunch of subjunctives: woulda, coulda ,shoulda, musta. Even God looks on those 6 crumbs with puzzlement; even His omniscience can't fathom why a person would live her life allowing others to think for her.

uhhh, i think its saying that nothing lasts forever, quote "but only so an hour", "then leaf subsides to leaf", and "nothing gold can stay"... hope this helps!

P.S. nice poem by the way!

its talking about how nothing lasts forever. everything good must come to an end.

maxumum: the person who asked the question didnt write the poem. its by robert frost, moron

wow i just had to pick a poem to write a 3 page report on in school like 2 weeks ago and this is the poem i picked...It basically means that you have to hold on to the good moments in life because they won't last forever...you have to live your life the best you can because it won't last forever

It means that nothing gold stays gold. And by gold, I mean beautiful, valuable, otherwise appreciated. All things deteriorate, all things depreciate, all things fade away.

Symbols include nature, flowers, leaves, Eden, dawn...

He is saying that life is like springtime when everything is blooming, everything is green and brand new. As springtime turns into summer, then fall, it is like us as we age and we are no longer as fresh and young as we used to be. No one stays young forever, just like spring can not stay, but eventually turns into winter.

it speaks abt the life cycle of life

how after happiness there is sadness

how every good thing comes to an end

it speaks abt the reality of life which many of us don't understand