Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

By Alana Solin · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed July 08, 2023

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?

An unnamed first-person narrator

An unnamed third-person narrator

Nature

The Garden of Eden
2 Where is this poem set?

New Hampshire

Boston

Eden

This poem has no specific setting
3 Eden in this poem represents darkness, turning the image's usual meaning on its head.

True

False
4 Consonance is used in this poem.

True

False
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

True

False
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?

Monetary value

Sunlight

Youth, beauty, and goodness

Tenderness and care
7 Eden is personified in this poem as a woman.

True

False
8 This poem uses an "AABB" rhyme scheme.

False

True
9 This poem uses rhyming couplets

False

True
10 The title of this poem is misleading.

False

True
11 Which of the following most closely describes the speaker's tone?

Distraught and mournful

Neutral and slightly sorrowful

Hopeful and trepidatious

Passionate and inspired
12 The speaker is unnamed.

True

False
13 How many syllables does each line contain?

Each line contains five syllables except for the last, which contains six

Each line contains six syllables except for the last, which contains five

The lines alternately contain six and eight syllables

The lines alternately contain eight and ten syllables
14 This poem is a sonnet.

False

True
15 What does "an hour" represent in this poem?

The final moments of one's life

The full span of a lifetime

It does not represent anything and literally means an hour of time

A fleeting and unspecified amount of time
16 What does "a leaf" subside to in this poem?

A seed

A flower

A tree

Another leaf
17 What does dawn "[go] down to" in this poem?

The earth

The horizon

Night

Day
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?

It does not reappear

The final line

At the end of the first stanza

The first line
19 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

One

Four

Three

Two
20 Each line of this poem is its own sentence.

True

False
21 This poem uses the juxtaposition between day and night to differentiate between good and evil.

False

True
22 This poem is an ode.

True

False
23 What "[sinks] to grief" in the poem?

A capsized ship

The speaker

A leaf in water

Eden
24 What is an "early leaf" compared to in the poem?

Imminent death

Gold

An infant

A flower
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

True

False

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