Body Paragraph - Chapter 11 - "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

In "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, musical devices are used to convey the nostalgic tone of watching seasons pass by in nature. Nature is personified as a female due to nature being referred to as "Her" several times (2). Gold is spoken of as "Her hardest hue to hold" (2). This alliteration is easy to read and flows off the tongue just like how the gold hue is hard to hold onto and slips away. The poem is made up of four rhyming couplets. The rhyming ties the two lines together no matter what punctuation separates them. Repetition of the word leaf in "leaf subsides to leaf" demonstrates the way that the cycle repeats itself over and over (5). There is allusion to the garden of Eden: "So Eden sank to grief, / So dawn goes down to day" (6-7). This allusion predicts that the gold will always leave, yet the idea that "dawn goes down to day" confirms that the gold will return just as day returns after night.