![]() ![]() I don’t lament this procession (or precession ) so much as marvel at it, pleased and shocked that a poem written in 1923-itself a mere sign that gestures weakly toward the “reality” of the natural world-is at its core. In other words, we’re living in Baudrillard’s hypperreality and loving every second of it. When we now exhort someone to “stay gold” absent the original context of Frost’s poem, we’re engaging a deep distortion of the original text. The text of the meme is lifted from Jean Baudrillard’s “The Precession of Simulacra.” One of Baudrillard’s beliefs was not that signs bear no resemblance to reality, but that a shared understanding of reality has no real bearing on how we live our lives.Īs we move from Frost’s poem to Hinton’s integration of the poem into her text to a film adaptation of the novel to a stupid piece of painted wood with the words “STAY GOLD” laser cut out of it that is definitely not hanging on my wall as I write this, we arrive at a phrase which “bears no relation to any reality whatsoever,” in a way. A television miniseries of The Outsiders directed by Coppola also airs on Foxġ997: The Get Up Kids release their song, “Stay Gold, Ponyboy,” on their debut album Four Minute MileĢ006 : Rockstar releases Bully, a role-playing video game about a school divided into factions that include the Greasers and the Preppies-at one point, a main character uses the phrase “Heads up, Ponyboy”Ģ021: An Etsy search for “Stay Gold, Ponyboy” returns 574 t-shirts, stickers, wall hangings, hats, necklaces, and other ephemera available for purchase Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, and Emilio Estevez, arrives in theatersġ990 : Christopher Sergel adapts Hinton’s novel into a full-length stage play. Hinton publishes The Outsiders, a coming-of-age novel, with Viking Press at the age of 18ġ983: The motion picture adaptation of The Outsiders, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring C. 1923: Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” is published in The Yale Reviewġ967: S.
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