UsingTP-CASTT

An application to

“Nothing Gold Can Stay”

By Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can StayBy 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.

T=Title

• Read the title of the poem. • What do you think about when you read the

title? • What predictions can you make about the poem

based upon the title?

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

•I think of change, loss, beauty, death

•Gold= good, valuable, money

•Can’t stay= loss?

P=Paraphrase

• 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.

• plants are yellow before green

• They don’t stay that way.• First there is a bloom;• But it doesn’t last long.• The leaves fall and are

replaced by others.• Eden also lost happiness,• Also, The morning hours

pass by.• All beauty vanishes.

C=ConnotationConnotation: The associated meanings/feelings of a word

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.

valuable

beauty

Perfection/Sin

Inspiring/Dangerous

A=AttitudeWhat is the Poet’s Feeling toward the subject?

(Use your “Words to Describe Tone” Handout)

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.

Tone=disheartened

Tone=bittersweet

S=Shift

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.

Changes from describing the good to discussing loss of good

T=Title (revisited)

• Gold is everything beautiful and good—but because of how the world works, it is not permanent.

OR

• Gold might represent innocence and purity—but humans do not remain so (just ask Eve!)

T=Theme

What is the statement about the human condition/life?

• Humans are fated to loose purity and goodness.

• Life is a cycle that forever changes from beauty to beauty.

• Even the happiest of lives ends in death and grief.