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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in the ''Yale Review'' in October of that year. It was later published in the collection ''New Hampshire'' (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ''New Hampshire'' also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." == Reception == In 1953, R. Ferguson wrote "perhaps no single poem in which the metaphors of Eden and the Fall cohere with the idea of ''felix culpa''." Six years later, John A. Rea, wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest - hue - hold" and the seventh's "dawn - down - day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first quatrain together while the front rising diphthongs do the same for the last four lines.〔 In 1984, William H. Pritchard called the poem's "perfectly limpid, toneless assertion" an example of Frost demonstrating how "his excellence extended also to the shortest of figures", and fitting Frost's "later definition of poetry as a momentary stay against confusion."〔 In 1993, George F. Bagby wrote the poem "projects a fairly comprehensive vision of experience" in a typical but "extraordinarily compressed" example of synecdoche that "moves from a detail of vegetable growth to the history of human failure and suffering."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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