Robert Frosts’ poem is a very short and small poem in which those short sentences describe such a vast amount of information. I think it is stated to remind us that we should make use of useful things for us instead of ignoring it and be sorry for not making use of it. The other meaning might be that the life is not always fair and everything which is good for us, does not last forever even if we wished so, and therefore we should take advantage of it, now that we have it and that we cannot avoid bad things to occur in our life too. I think it is very hard to state such great words within such a few sentences. This is basically what is happening to Ponyboy at this time of the book. Johnny has murdered Bob and Ponyboy now wishes that everything was as it used to be, and realizes now, while they are wanted, that their lives were already great when everything was normal. But at that time he had wished for more and only looked at the negative sites of being a greaser and not the positive. He realizes that what he had was good, and it would be rather greedy to ask for even more. Ponyboy is sad that he did not realize how good a life he had, before he was put into danger and troubles. It often happens that people realize that they had a great life, before they were put into such serious troubles. That is why we should always think of other people, before we take our problems more serious than they really should be treated. This poem also makes one realize the good things in our lives compared to other people who live in far worse conditions. I am really amazed by this poem and though I’ve heard a couple of poems, this probably belongs to my favourite, although poems normally do not interest me. But this poem “Nothing gold can stay” really amazed me a lot. It challenges you to find the meaning of it, and I think that there are different meanings that are a bit related to each others somehow. A simply amazing poem.