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Compare And Contrast Nothing Gold Can Stay And Abandoned Farm House

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The poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Abandoned Farmhouse have many things in common and many differences. The themes are also alike and have many special unique traits.
The authors of these poems are Ted Kooser and Robert Frost. They used many good writing techniques. These poems are alike in some ways and different in others. First of all, they both have a theme of change. The line "Nothing gold can stay" in Nothing gold can stay, means that nothing can stay the same forever or you can't stop change. The Abandoned Farmhouse shows change because as time changes the family can't keep enough money because the father cannot farm so they can't make money to keep the farm so they left in a hurry. Another small theme is loss. In Nothing Gold Can

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