Nothing Gold can Stay

There are 2 metaphors in the poem Nothing Gold can Stay. There is also a personification in this poem.  Today we will be focusing on 1 of the metaphors and the personification. We will focus on the metaphor first and then we will transition into the personification.

The metaphor we  are focusing on is “Natures first green is gold”. This metaphor describes that natures first green is a beautiful sight no matter what it looks like. The first green of nature is worth a lot and that what  the author feels this metaphors tone is. We still have the personification to go over.

The personification we will be working on is “So Eden sank to grief”. This personification tells us about nature losing its leaves and summer changing to fall. In the garden Eden he believes that it lost its color and looked sad. 

When you read this poem you think that the leaves and the grass are coming back. You also think that summer is here and winter is gone. Also that trees, grass, and plants come back to life and that “Natures first green is gold”. But the poem is also saying that summer changing to fall that nature loses its beautiful colors.

So Nothing Gold can Stay is a popular poem that many people like and enjoy to read. Some people like analyzing text of certain poems and that is what I did in this poem for the people that want to know the tone of the metaphor and personification I have analyzed. 

Another point of view

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is wrote from a 2^nd person point of view. This story is wrote in different point of views but Percy Jackson is the main point of view. He influences his friends that help him on his journey to finding Zeus’s lightning bolt that has been stolen.

If this book were written from a different point of view It would have made me think differently about this book. This is a book that probably could only be wrote from Percy’s point of view because it is about a kid that is the son of Poseidon and Zeus’s lightning bolt has been stolen. So Percy and his friends have to find the bolt and return it to Zeus. He influences other characters in the story by not giving up even though he has a lot of tough times to go through he just doesn’t give up. By not giving up he influences others by them not giving up on Percy or giving up on themselves.

If the story was written from Annabeth’s point of view she would not have faced the medusa. The story would have probably ended right then and there but form Percy’s point of view he did face the medusa and killed her because he didn’t give up and neither did his friends because he influenced them by him getting hurt.

So if this book was wrote from a different point of view it would have been a different book and the book would not have as much action as it does now. Percy is a very unique character in the lighting thief.  So there u have it the book would be very different in another person’s point of view.

Will Vs. Percy

Both The Lightning Thief series and the Rangers Apprentice series are packed with suspenseful action and plot development.  Both feature both battle strategy and detailed descriptions of battles. Percy Jackson has more mythological characters. Although both series are fictional adventure stories, they both teach you something about history and culture. In Percy Jackson books you learn about Greek mythology, and in Ranger’s Apprentice books you learn about Medieval times.

Percy and Will have to face different creatures such as Percy having to fight a minotaur and Will having to fight wargals. Percy has many different things he has to learn not to be sad about such as his mom fought off the minotaur to help Percy escape to get to safety. Will had traveled to Arauel. But when they travel there they here that Morgarath has advised an attack. When Will and Horace travel to neighboring Celtica to deliver a message about the looming war, they find the area has been abandoned. Morgarath has enslaved the Celts and is using them to build a bridge that will allow his army to descend from the mountains and take Araluen by surprise. Along the way, Will and Horace find a terrified girl named Evanlyn hiding in bushes. The Wargals attacked her party, and she was the sole survivor. She also helps burn the bridge that the Skandians have built.

In both books there are 2 major battle scenes. Such as Will having to burn the bridge the Celts were forced to build. Will, Horace and Evanlyn had to fight to burn the bridge down which is a major battle in the Rangers Apprentice. If they had not burned the bridge Araluen might have been taken over by Morgarath. Percy also has a major battle such as facing Medusa one of the evilest creatures known to the gods. Percy and his friends have to find out a way to kill her. The only way you can kill her is by cutting her head off. That is exactly what he does to kill her. But if you look into her eyes you will turn to stone. That is the only challenge he has to face while the verses Medusa.

These 2 books have many differences but also have their similarities. Major battle scenes are books that will interest many different people. There are many different books to each series and they are all very good books but different plots and characters. All though they have differences they will always have similarities.