Analysis of Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
By 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.
Analysis
So, you think you know what this poem is about? Well guess what, you don’t.
Yeah, big fucking surprise there.
This poem is about heroin and the properties of gateway drugs.
In the first line, the druggy, “Nature” spends all of her money, or “green,” to get a baggie of some “gold,” which is slang for heroin. Duh. I feel like I’m in kindergarten again explaining which types of glue to sniff to get high. Man, I was a great teacher.
In the second line, this junkie can’t hold her shit, and rats out the dealer when he refuses to give her more smack for all the BJ’s, HJ’s, and many other types of J’s she’s been giving him.
So, with no dope left to cope, she turns back to the early leaf. Yep, you’re catching on… marijuana. But, as revealed in the fourth line, she only downgrades for an hour.
Why only an hour? Is it because she can’t deny her cravings for heroin?
Nope, it’s because she time travels after smoking the herb out of her water bong. It’s later revealed in her autopsy that the reefer had been dipped in embalming fluid. So this may be what you call a near-death experience. Except (spoiler alert!) she dies.
She goes all the way back in time to the Garden of Gesthemani, takes a shit (which Jesus later steps in: “Icky!”), continues time travelling and finally ends up in the Garden of Eden. When she arrives, the garden “sinks to grief” and instantly bursts into flame. God gets pissed off and takes a 4th dimensional piss in an attempt to extinguish the flames.
This fails, so he calls the Eden Fire Department to take care of the problem. After that nice little chat, he disconnects his phone, snorts a dangerous amount of sleeping pills, and passes out.
So now, with the fire out and God comatose, Nature (the time traveling bitch), Adam, Eve, and the fire department party from dawn till day, and commit all sorts of hideous acts of evil. The devil invites himself to the party and gives everyone enough heroin to kill a mountain.
They all overdose and die, leaving God, after he wakes up a few millennia later, to find their corpses. He is forced to pick a new Adam and Eve to reboot humanity. But this time he decides it’s best if “nothing gold can stay,” so he erases the existence of heroin.
God let’s out a big sigh, then checks himself back into rehab.
Author: James Hoff
