Where does Johnny get the idea that nothing gold can stay?

Answer 1

It relates to this because Johnny at the end of the book is telling Ponyboy to "stay gold" and to look at the sunsets. Also when it says "So dawn goes down to day" it is saying that nothing lasts forever.

Answer 2

Johnny wants Ponyboy to saty gold, as in he wants Ponyboy to stay young, and not grow to be a Greaser, and to be himself and not turn hard like Dallas

Answer 3

The poem means that satying young and beautiful cannot stay forever. Nothing Gold- nothing good.

Answer 4

the poem means you can't be innocent forever. like when Johnny writes Ponyboy the letter in the book he means to stay innocent when he says stay gold.