"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

 The poem is a very short poem with a total of 8 lines. Within those 8 lines a great story is told. While reading the poem a few times over I was able to pick up on a few key points. Just to mention one, the poem starts off by saying "Nature's first green is gold," Implying spring and it's first leafs, and the richness off it all. Gold represents wealth, thus the speaker can be trying to say that nature's green is worth just as much as gold. Many argue that money can't buy happiness, and that love for material objects will never bring "true happiness". As gold symbolises materialism it wont last for long and it will give us “fake happiness”. That is pretty much what I think the message of the speaker is.

The fish

I'm the farthest thing from a fan of poetry, but I must say I do have a new found respect for the genre. After reading "The Fish" multiple times I found myself enjoying the challenge of trying to figure out the authors message. I wrote essay #2 based on this poem and I thought I was going to have a nightmare trying to find the literary techniques used by the author. When I begun my search by analyzing the essay it became very clear that the poem was full of different literary elements. I must admit it actually was much more simple than I thought. I think I  will spend a little more recreational time reading and analyzing poetry. I think it may help with cognitive development by forcing me to think in new ways.