After Johnny was beat up and he killed Bob both boys were never the same. Two events in the book changed the innocence of the boys forever. In the last line, “Nothing gold can stay” means that people change and our innocence of youth can’t stay forever. It closes with the meaning that the childhood of a person is finished and will never return. The poem continues to go from the innocence of youth to the realization that they are no longer a child and they must face the world on their own. This is very much how Johnny and Pony’s lives were until the night Johnny killed the soc, Bob. A child will become older and lose the innocence they have as they become an adult and begin to do wrong things. But as the poem continues, it symbolizes that youth is very hard to hold on to because everyone gets older. I think that in “The Outsiders”, the gold referenced in Robert Frost’s poem symbolizes the youth of the boys. It means that all things are going to change eventually, like people, seasons and nature. However, even though the great times come to an end, they will be followed by more and more great things. Life may seem perfect one moment and then it goes away. The poem talks about how innocence and good thing do not last. Johnny’s life was carefree and happy until the night he got beat up. This was a time when everything was golden, or beautiful. In “The Outsider’s” this is symbolic to the childhood innocence of the boys before struggles, gangs and heartache were around.
In the first line of the poem, “Nature’s first green is gold”, I think of a fresh spring where all of the light green color and flowers sprouting on the trees is beautiful.
Just like nothing in nature can stay new and fresh and beautiful forever, people can’t either. The poem “Nothing gold can stay” relates to the life of Pony and Johnny throughout the story. Johnny says that although Pony has grown in a world that’s dirty and grimy he still managed to stay shiny and golden and he tells him to STAY GOLD!
Johnny is talking about innocence, childhood and purity. He tells Pony that he knows what the poet means by “nothing gold can stay”. The poem is referenced again at the end of the book when you read the letter Johnny wrote to Pony. The poem is a mere eight lines long yet the few words speak volumes as they relate to the story of “The Outsiders”. Although the meaning keeps eluding him, he continues to make the effort to understand it. The poem was always something that stuck with Pony because he never understood what it meant. Pony introduces a Robert Frost poem to Johnny called “Nothing Gold Can Stay” that becomes a very symbolic theme throughout the book “The Outsiders”.
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