Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay 读后感。

听了几个网友的精彩朗诵和翻译，很喜欢这首短诗。这首诗也让我想起另外贝卡版主贴的一首诗 “愿你尽享世间美好”。(请看下面链接)

 

The first time I read Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing gold can stay”, I was at a loss to understand this poem. Its subtlety and depth were beyond my grasp. Then I found several interpretations of this poem on the Internet, which have helped me acquire some degree of understanding. It is such a beautiful poem, which depicts something you already know, yet in a hauntingly beautiful and profound way.

In the poem, the heavenly beauty and perfection represented by gold, flowers, Eden, and dawn are short-lived and transitory, and are soon replaced by green, leaves, grief, and day, which are seemingly less valuable and less desirable, but are an integrated part and a necessary step of natural process and life cycle.

Nothing gold can stay. Yes, beautiful moments are transitory and ephemeral. Woody Allen once said that pleasurable moments are like “transient oases in a vast desert of unspeakable gloom”. Yet these unpleasant and imperfect moments are not less valuable, because they could give rise to a fuller, richer, and larger life.

This poem also reminds me of another poem posted by Rebecca Lin - "I Wish You Enough" by Bob Perks, which also embodies a delicate balance between positive and negative aspects of life, such as sun and rain, happiness and pain, gain and loss, and hello and goodbye. We need all of them, good or bad, in our lives!

 

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leafs 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.

 

yingyudidida 的朗诵:

http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/yingyulangsong/136698.html

肖庄的朗诵：

http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/zhongyiingfanyi/136874.html

李唐的翻译：

http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/zhongyiingfanyi/136859.html

贝卡的贴“愿你尽享世间美好”：

http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/yingyumeiwen/127002.html

所有跟帖： 

• Nice! -走马读人- ♂ (2646 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 04:49:08

• Thank you! 走马读人. -NewVoice- ♀ (297 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 06:22:29

• it sounds negative in Chinese but very positive in the poem -tingfeng- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 08:52:32

• NewVoice好文采。绽放刹那，瞬间永恒。 -祤湫霖- ♀ (2419 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 07:12:51

• Love it!!! Thanks, Rebecca. 瞬间即为永恒. -NewVoice- ♀ (479 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 09:08:42

• 喜欢这几句诗行，谢谢分享。"Eternity in a hour". -祤湫霖- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/24/2012 postreply 08:51:59

• Beautiful writing. You are an optimist. -肖庄- ♀ (172 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 07:16:12

• Thanks! 肖庄. -NewVoice- ♀ (247 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 09:22:41

• I am serious. Yours is my favorite. -肖庄- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 10:46:01

• great explaination. thank you! -tingfeng- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 08:50:50

• Thank you! tingfeng. Enjoy your day! -NewVoice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 09:24:45

• 精彩的英诗赏析 -yingyudidida- ♂ (1533 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 09:29:59

• Thanks! DiDiDa. -NewVoice- ♀ (291 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 12:11:34

• In the view of pessimism，the good thing is gone even before your -beautifulwind- ♀ (110 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 16:38:36

• 谢谢声姐精彩的积极的赏析！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 16:06:39

• 谢谢美风！周五好！ -NewVoice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/24/2012 postreply 04:20:34

• 很到位的分析! -ntotl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 19:44:37

• 谢谢永学！向你学习。 -NewVoice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/24/2012 postreply 04:22:09

• 理解深刻，写得精彩。谢谢美坛思想家NewVoice。 -EnLearner- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/23/2012 postreply 19:46:35

• 谢谢愚公！过奖了。 -NewVoice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/24/2012 postreply 04:23:26