... Stay." It is the name of a poem by Robert Frost; it is also the message he conveys in several of his works. While reflecting on this piece as well as "A Patch of Old Snow" we can come to a greater understanding as to why "Nothing Gold Can Stay." As nature's first green starts to show itself, it is such a sight. The people ... to get tired of such beauty well before we do, that's why sunrises and sunsets are so short. The patch of snow shows more about faded memories than of lost beauty, but they have much to do with each other. Snow is so white and clean and attractive, until it gets al...

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... fourth lines rhyme. The rhyme scheme is AABA, BBCD, CCEC, and so on. Only the final stanza breaks the pattern. The opening stanza sets the scene. A traveler looks out into a patch of woods owned by someone who lives far away, in a village. The speaker says, "He will not see me stopping here. To watch his woods fill up with snow." We ... traveler seems to want to stay exactly where he is, and the other wants to leave the human-made road and enter the deep and lovely darkness that is also white from falling snow, possibly symbolizing moonlight. The speaker is attracted to what is "dark" a...

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