Step 1: Re-read the following poem from chapter 5 of The Outsiders and answer the two
discussion questions that follow.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
By: Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs 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.
1. What is your overall opinion of the poem? Explain.
2. Directly quote a line from the poem that stands out to you. What does that line make you
think about? Explain the meaning in your own words.