Robert Lee Frost罗伯特弗罗斯特简介.pptVIP

Life Born in San Francisco, California, was of New England parentage. When he was ten, his father died and his mother took him back to Massachusetts. In 1894 he sold his first poem, “My Butterfly: An Elegy”(20) He married Elinor Miriam White at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895.(21) He entered college twice, Dartmouth and Harvard. Frost studied at Harvard for two years(1897~1899), but left without receiving a degree due to family problems and poor health. ? Roberts grandfather purchased?a farm?for Robert and Elinor in New Hampshire, and Robert worked the farm for nine years, while producing many of the poems that would later become famous. In 1912 Frost took his and four young children to England, where he published his first book of poems, “A Boy’s Will”《少年的意志》(1913), which immediately won him a recognition he had not found in America.(39) He made some important acquaintances there. After that he published “North of Boston”《波士顿以北》，which was highly praised by British critics. As World War I began, Frost returned to America in 1915 and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing.(41) Some famous poems The Road Not Taken《未选择的路》 Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 《雪夜林边驻脚》 Fire and Ice《火与冰》 Mending Wall《补墙》 Nothing Gold Can Stay《美景易逝》 The Birches《白桦树》 The Books of Poetry New Hampshire 《新罕布什尔》 Collected Poems 《诗歌精选》 A Further Range 《又一片牧场》 A Witness Tree 《见证树》 Characters of his poems Frost’s poems show deep appreciation of natural world and sensibility about the human aspirations. All the images (woods, stars, houses) he uses reflect the poet’s love for nature and life, his sad experience in life and the influence religion exerted upon western people’s daily life.  He is a poet of profound simplicity(朴素). He did not write free verse but in the traditional metrical