Making Connections

Read the following poem.  Reflect on how this poem connects to themes in Catcher in the Rye.  How does it connect to life in general?  What is the tone?  How might this poem connect to love and relationships?

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. 

Robert Frost