1. Robert Frost
Major American Poet

2. 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.

3. Nothing Gold Can Stay Published 1923 Yale Review
1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
What does the poem really mean?
What statement is Frost making about nature, humanity, life…?

4. This Too Shall Pass Origin: Material wealth and possessions
Medieval Persian Sufi poets
Fable of a Great King
Transcribed on a Ring
POWER:
make a HAPPY man SAD
make a SAD man HAPPY
Material wealth and possessions
Situations/conditions that are positive/negative
WILL ALL GO AWAY WITH TIME
LIFE IS FLEETING!

5. This Too Shall Pass Origin: Psalm 57:1
“Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.”
Jewish Folklore (ring, after experiencing Holocaust)
Abraham Lincoln used in a speech (1859)

6. The Outsiders Ponyboy & Johnny