Ponyboy The Outsiders Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ponyboy recites robert frost s nothing gold can stay poem.
Ponyboy the outsiders nothing gold can stay. Nothing gold can stay. Nothing gold can stay is a poem by robert frost. Ponyboy is a better person at the end and is no longer afraid and feels bad about being a greaser.
Stay gold is a reference to the robert frost poem that ponyboy recites to johnny when the two hide out in the windrixville church. Nothing gold can stay is a poem by robert frost 1874 1963 written in 1923. Johnny later refers to the poem in his last words to ponyboy stay gold and in his letter which ponyboy received after johnny s death.
One line in the poem reads nothing gold can stay meaning that all good things must come to an end. He remembers it when he is watching the sunrise with johnny while they are hiding out in the church. Ponyboy learned this poem in english class.
Hinton she was 18 when it was published one of the characters recites the famous line stay gold ponyboy stay gold in reference to the poem by robert frost. When johnny said to ponyboy to stay gold he meant to stay pure genuine strong sharp etc. It overall is just positive words.
In the book the outsiders by s. Robert frost s poem nothing gold can stay becomes an allegory s e. Hinton uses in the outsiders to highlight the loss of innocence within the greasers lives specifically those of the youngest.
Johnny didn t want ponyboy to change because he was already gold.
