“Nothing Gold Can Stay” states nothing about the loss of innocence, yet that meaning can be gleaned from the way Frost constructed the poem as a “representation of transformation and natural growth” ” (“Nothing” 205). “Young Goodman Brown” is about a Puritan man's choice to meet the Devil, who in turn will change him forever, “Goodman Brown does not become aware of his own affinity with evil; he does not see sin in himself but only in others. . . He has lost not only faith in his fellow men, but also compassion for them” (Hurley 124). The importance of religion in “Young Goodman Brown” comes from the setting and the main character's thoughts and ideals of being a “good man”.