Thesis: The speaker of Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" conveys a tone of resigned acceptance through his use of alliteration, allusion, and selection of diction.
The speaker employs alliteration in order to convey his tone of resignation. In line 2, four of the five words in the line begin with the letter "H". As a result, the line sounds and feels breathy and fleeting. These feelings represent the speaker's view of youth. This line suggests that the speaker sees youth as too short and as hazy and obscure. The speaker softly acknowledges here that youth and life do not last as long as one may wish. Furthermore, the tone created by the soft phonemes of the second line is further accentuated by the hard "G" sound of "green" and "gold," which immediately precede that line (1). The contrast of these consonant sounds enhances the speaker's resigned tone.
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