Nothing Gold Can Stay Analysis

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The poems Abandoned Farmhouse and Nothing Gold Can Stay both had many similarities and differences. The poem Nothing Gold Can Stay had a theme of change. The poem represented that nothing perfect stays the same. Abandoned Farmhouse had many themes, hardship,change, preservation, and tragedy, etc. The poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Abandoned Farmhouse both had many similarities. They both had a theme of change. Nothing Gold Can Stay states in”Then leaf subsides to leaf, So dawn goes down to day, and Nothing gold can stay. These lines all represent change like in “ leaf subsides to leaf” it means that it changes cause it subsides to something else. Another line it shows chang is in “so dawn goes down to day shows change because it is reverencing…show more content…
The poem Abandoned Farmhouse shows that it also has a theme of change. Because it is about how a family used to live in a farmhouse and now they don't because they didn’t have money. They did not have money because the husband of the family did not know how to farm. This shows change because now they don't live at the farmhouse. I know they don't live in the farmhouse because in the line “She left in a nervous haste”. Another reason they are alike is because they are mood was sad i know nothing gold can stays mood was sad because it was about how nothing perfect stays the same and that is not happy. And i know the mood of abandoned farm house was sad because the theme is also tragedy along with chang. I know the theme is tragedy because it says money was scarce, winters were cold, and the man didn't know how to farm. This poem’s mood is sad because it is not happy when someone Has to leave their house. And one final reason these poems are similar is because they are similar in craft because they both have alliteration. I know they have alliteration because in nothing gold can stay these are the…show more content…
The poem abandoned farmhouse has personification I know this poem has personification because, it says”says the size of his shoes”,”says the length of the bed”,”says the bible with a broken back”,”say the fields”,”says the bedroom walls”,”Say the sandbox”,”say the jars”,”say the rags”,says the empty house”. These are all examples of personification in the poem abandoned farmhouse. Another reason these poems are different is because the poem abandoned farmhouse has character development and nothing gold can stay has no characters. evidence of character development can be seen here in these sentences,”He was a big man, says the size of his shoes on a pile of broken dishes by the size of his house,And a good, god fearing man. A tall man too. these are examples of character development. i know the poem nothing gold can stay has no character development because it has no characters. And a final reason the two poems are different is because the poem abandoned farmhouse has another theme of preservation. I know this poem has a theme of preservation because It says “Say the jars of plum preserves in the cellar. this shows preservation because If they had a grocery store near them they would not need to preserve their food. another reason is because this poem shows preservation is because they have to but rags in the window frames to keep the cold out. this shows preservation because they do not have a heater

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