Allusions In Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay

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“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a poem of allusions. The allusion to the biblical story of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. There is also an allusion to the Greek myth about the loss of the “Golden Age,” which refers to the time of innocence and happiness. The speaker of this poem suggests beauty, goodness and innocence of nature. These things start as perfection and quickly dwindle apart with time. Frost uses nature to describe perfection in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” “Design” is a sonnet with a rhyme scheme of abbaba, acaacc, which is very different from most sonnets. The poem talks about a spider and moth on a “heal all” to pose questions about nature. A heal all is a flowering plant of the mint family. After
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