Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
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.

I LOVE this poem! Silly, but ever since The Outsiders I have always adored it. Obviously, Frost is metaphorically comparing nature and Eden to life...I think that this poem is pretty ambiguous, it can be taken in a depressing way, that nothing can stay "golden," or in a reflective way, that you should appreciate everything you have because it won't always be there forever.

I noticed Frost's biblical allusion to the Garden of Eden...Look, I just alluded to class! (:
Anyway, Frost made this allusion because when God made the Garden of Eden, it was supposed to be something permanent, but Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge when they weren't supposed to, and when God caught them, they were cast away from the Garden. Thus, "nothing gold can stay."