What is the tone of the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?

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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

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When you talk about somebody's tone of voice, you're talking about the mood or emotion conveyed when the person speaks. Maybe they sound happy, sad, excited, bored, frightened, etc. Same deal when you talk about the tone of a poem. When Robert Louis Stevenson writes, "The world is so full of a number of things,/I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings," it's easy to see that the tone of the poem is cheerful. When Wilfred Owen writes an anti-war poem about solidiers suffering and dying on the battlefield, his words have a bitter, angry tone. In the humorous poems of Ogden Nash, the tone is light and jokey, not heavy and serious. So what mood, what feeling do you sense in the Frost poem? Is the speaker happy or sad about the fact the nothing new and beautiful ever stays that way? Is the poem delivering glad tidings about the way life works, or is it offering a gloomy message?
 
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