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* * Robert Frost(1874 - 1963) The most popular 20th Century American Poet; A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 3. Robert Frost Robert Frost on the farm in New England: A web site The farmhouse in Derry Biographical Information Born in San Francisco in 1874, died in Boston in 1963. After his fathers death in 1885, young Frost left California with his family and settled in Massachusetts. Attended high school in Mass., entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Biographical Information ④Did odd jobs: teaching school and working in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. ⑤Attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. ⑥Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and supplemented his income by teaching at Derrys Pinkerton Academy. Literary Career At 38, he sold the farm and took his family to England. In England, his efforts to establish himself as a poet was almost immediately successful. A Boys Will was published 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston. Favorable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic resulted in American publication of the books. The Frosts sailed for the United States in February 1915 and landed in New York City. Sales of his books enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H.; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval (1916); and to embark on a long career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. Frost’s poetic theory He emphasized on the dramatic qualities of poetry. He believed that all poetry is essentially metaphorical隐喻. He insisted that poetry cannot be forced into being.诗歌不能被迫创作 He thought that poetry serves as a means of giving patterns to man’s existence. Major Features of Frost’s Poems He was an essentially pastoral poet田园诗人 often associated with rural New England. He used the rural world as a source of symbols, whose philosophical dimensions transcend