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.
This poem that was written by Robert Frost has a personal meanings for Johnny and Ponyboy. I think this poem has a deep story behind it. I think each sentence has its own meaning. The poem starts of by saying "Nature's first green is gold" which means that all the boys had a pretty good life and were mostly innocent. The poem then continues and in the book the boys grow up. "Her hardest hue to hold" means that it was hard to stay innocent seeing the situations they were in. "Her early leaf's a flower" means that they were all sweet and nice and then "But only so an hour" meant they wouldn't stay innocent long and they would soon do something that they would regret. So I think that "So Eden sank to grief" means that the boys regret what they did. "So dawn goes down to day" means that the beauty disappears. Then to finish it of: "Nothing gold can stay" in the book means that nothing good stays the way it is.
In the chapter, Ponyboy recites the poem from memory. Ponyboy and Johnny were looking at the sunrise and there was a gold and silver mist. Johnny said that it was too bad it couldnt stay like that because it was so beautiful. That's why Ponyboy started reciting the poem. The line "Dawn goes down to day" refers to how the sunrise of dawn would disappear into day time and "Nothing gold can stay" refers to how the gold mist couldn't stay.
To the Greasers the poem is all about innocence. The boys start off normally and then they all do something they regret, beginning their reputation of becoming naughty. Then the poem progresses. It starts off all beautiful and innocent and then the beauty and innocence disappears. So for them "Nothing gold can stay" means that something that is good or someone innocent never stay the same for long.
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