In school today we discussed how Robert Frost uses allusion in his poem Nothing Gold Can Stay.
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.
Read the following three sentences. Which part of the sentence is an allusion? What does the allusion mean?
1. My siblings were gone, but I was in the house slaving like Cinderella.
2. His family sat there like the three bears eating porridge.
3. Their marriage was no Romeo and Juliet, but they were happy.
