Why does johnny's remark about the sunrise remind ponyboy of Robert frosts poem?

Answer 1

The reson y johnnys remark about the sun rise reminds Pony about the pome is because Johnny said look at how the sun tued everything gold so then the word gold remind Ponyboy of that pome

Answer 2

Johnny says "Too bad it couldn't stay like that." and that's when the poem poped into Ponyboy's mind.

"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.