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¶ … Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Deconstructionism is the reasons the poetry have meaning to the reader and the author. What are the biases in the poem?
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Robert Frost wrote the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Robert Frost's poem discusses nature's color of gold. He states that nature's first green as gold. Deconstructionism is taking a poem and applying it to life. "All of life is text to be interpreted, whether it is a poem..." (Bahnsen 3). The changes of nature can be described as gold and it deteriorates until it is gone. Love can be described as gold when a person first falls in love. Once the romance starts deteriorating, love (gold) is gone. Whether Robert Frost is describing a woman who is born in beauty then the beauty deteriorates can be a second meaning to this. Both will be used to discuss the meaning of "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
Nature's first green is gold....Her early leave's a flower" (Frost 1). A baby is born beautiful to the parents...
Her beauty is as beautiful as a velvet red rose. The parents hold and caress the baby and take pride as they gently look at her tiny feet and fingers. The joy of parenthood can be described as gold because the beauty of a newborn is greater than gold to the parent. The baby can do no wrong regardless of what it might be including waking the parent during the middle of the night.
The same is true for a newborn love. The woman can do no wrong. She is all that the lover wants. The beauty of his love cannot be described even if she is ugly to others. The lover believes that she is "a flower" She is his and that is greater than gold and more beautiful than the prettiest flower.
A baby begins to grow and change. Parents may find that the gold of their baby is changing in to a person they don't quite like. The gold begins to turn. Before the parents realize it, the baby is now a teenager. Sometimes this teenager gives the parents grief. "So Eden sank to grief" (Frost 1). The teenage years are difficult and…
Works Cited
Frost, Robert. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" Available Online at http://www.viterbo.edu/academic/ug/education/edu250/hllaurent3.htm
Deconstructionism" Christian Information Ministries. 2002 p. 1-12 Available Online at http://www.fni.com/cim/briefing/decon.doc
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