Copy of RL.CS.4: Nothing Gold Can Stay (9/2/2025)

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Figurative Language & Tone: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Figurative Language & Tone: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

-Rober Frost
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What feeling does the phrase 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' convey?

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Which figurative language is 'her hardest hue to hold' an example of?

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What does the phrase 'Dawn goes down to day' symbolize?

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What effect does the use of alliteration have in 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'?