Gold represents innocence and childhood. The phrase "Nothing gold can stay" means that nothing can stay young forever. People will age no matter what; people will lose their innocence no matter what. In the letter Johnny left Ponyboy inside the copy of Gone With The Wind, he says, "I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day."
This poem relates to The Outsiders because Ponyboy Curtis was just fourteen-years-old and was already facing so much in his life: murder case, parentless, brotherhood. Ponyboy has seen and heard too much to be innocent, yet he is not dirty. All this is making Ponyboy "lose" his "goldness", yet there is so much that Ponyboy is doing that keeps him gold, such as watching sunsets. Ponyboy has a childlike view of the world, and when Johnny tells him to "stay gold", he wants Ponyboy to stay this way and to never let go of these young, innocent things.
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D would be best for his argument. At present, he has a lot of statements, but no sources. While his premises are well grounded and logical, we're still having to take his word for it. Having citations lends credibility to his work.
Tiresias tells Odysseus that he will die at sea.
John Keats chose a sonnet in response to Chapman's Homer because <em>it was his favorite poetic style at the time</em>.
Writing sonnets allowed him to express all the emotional power so natural to the romantic poets he derived inspiration from, e.g. Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt
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Between 1815 and 1816, around the time of publication of <em>"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"</em> while still training to become an apothecary, Keats studied and experimented with the English sonnet to an extent his brothers feared <em>"he would destroy himself if impeded to write poetry"</em>.
