H D2 R Q11 – Selective High School

Read the poem by Robert Frost and answer the questions following.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

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.

‘So Eden sank to grief’ implies that

A woman named Eden cried over the leaves falling. Eden (another word for Earth) is dying due to global warming. The leaf’s fall is compared to the Garden of Eden grieving humanity. The leaf is grieved because it means autumn and winter is coming.

Are you sure you want to leave?

‘So Eden sank to grief’ implies that