Robert Frost "Stay Gold" Print
"Nothing gold can stay." - Robert Frost
Most of us first read this deceptively simple poem in grade school, but some of us were first introduced to it by C. Thomas Howell as greaser-poet Pony Boy in the film The Outsiders. So it was with me. And when it was later assigned in school, my eyes lit up with recognition. There are worse ways to discover poetry.
Purists will roll their eyes, but eighties movies were always sneaking us our vegetables. Dead Poets Society quotes Whitman and Tennyson extensively, Hannah and Her Sisters had e.e. cummings, Sophie's Choice had Dickinson, Platoon had T.S. Eliot, heck even Rutger Hauer's monologue at the end of Blade Runner had a distinctly William Blake vibe.
In this illustration, a waxing and waning moon (or sun) provides sustenance to a waxing and waning family of birds and the tree in which they make their home.
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