My Selection — Nothing Gold Can Stay

A poem by Robert Frost

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I find poetry very hard to understand. The words jumble around in my head as I try to process what each word means, let alone what they are trying to imply.

Forced to read poetry out loud in class as a child, I struggled with pronouncing words, emphasizing, and even pausing at the correct points. English Literature was not my favourite subject at…