Robert_Lee_Frost羅伯特弗羅斯特簡介

1、 LifeBorn 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 ente

2、red college twice, Dartmouth and Harvard. Frost studied at Harvard for two years(18971899), but left without receiving a degree due to family problems and poor health.Roberts grandfather purchaseda farmfor Robert and Elinor in New Hampshire, and Robert worked the farm for nine years, while producing

3、 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 Boys Will”少年的少年的意志意志(1913), which immediately won him a recognition he had not found in America.(39)He made some important acquaintances there.

4、After that he published “North of Boston”波士頓以北波士頓以北，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 Ta

5、ken未選擇的路 Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 雪夜林邊駐腳 Fire and Ice火與冰 Mending Wall補(bǔ)墻 Nothing Gold Can Stay美景易逝 The Birches白樺樹The Books of PoetryNew Hampshire 新罕布什爾新罕布什爾Collected Poems 詩歌精選詩歌精選A Further Range 又一片牧場(chǎng)又一片牧場(chǎng)A Witness Tree 見證樹見證樹Characters of his poemsFrosts poems show deep appreciation of

6、natural world and sensibility about the human aspirations. All the images (woods, stars, houses) he uses reflect the poets love for nature and life, his sad experience in life and the influence religion exerted upon western peoples daily life. He is a poet of profound simplicity(樸素樸素). He did not wr

7、ite free verse but in the traditional metrical (韻律的韻律的) forms-rhymed stanzas and blank verse.He used the old forms in a new way.His poetic language was plain, clearly conveying a feeling in harmony with nature. He seemed universally calm and controlled, standing in the middle of the road viewing goo

8、d and evil, beautiful and ugly.In his view, a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom”.詩要詩要“興于喜悅，而終于徹悟興于喜悅，而終于徹悟” AchievementsIn 1930 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.In 1958 he was poetry consultant for the Library of CongressFrost was awarded the Pulitzer (普利策獎(jiǎng)普利策獎(jiǎng)) fo

9、ur times and received honorary degrees(名譽(yù)學(xué)位名譽(yù)學(xué)位) from 44 colleges and universities.In 1961 he was invited to read his poetry at the inauguration(就職典禮就職典禮) of President John F. Kennedy.” The Gift Outright ”全全才才At the time of his death on January 29,1963, Frost was considered as a kind of unofficial p

10、oet laureate(桂冠詩人桂冠詩人) of the US.I had a lovers quarrel with the world.我和這個(gè)世界有過情人般的爭吵我和這個(gè)世界有過情人般的爭吵。Together wing to wing, and oar to oar.在天比翼，在地同舟在天比翼，在地同舟。 雪夜林邊駐腳雪夜林邊駐腳想來我認(rèn)識(shí)這座森林，想來我認(rèn)識(shí)這座森林，林主的莊宅就在鄰村林主的莊宅就在鄰村,卻不會(huì)見我在此駐馬，卻不會(huì)見我在此駐馬，看他林中積雪的美景?？此种蟹e雪的美景。我的小馬一定頗驚訝：我的小馬一定頗驚訝：四望不見有什么農(nóng)家，四望不見有什么農(nóng)家，偏是一年最暗的黃昏，偏

11、是一年最暗的黃昏，寒林和冰湖之間停下。寒林和冰湖之間停下。它搖一搖身上的串鈴，它搖一搖身上的串鈴，問我這地方該不該停。問我這地方該不該停。此外只有輕風(fēng)拂雪片，此外只有輕風(fēng)拂雪片，再也聽不見其他聲音。再也聽不見其他聲音。森林又暗又深真可羨，森林又暗又深真可羨，但我還要守一些諾言，但我還要守一些諾言，還要趕多少路才安眠，還要趕多少路才安眠，還要趕多少路才安眠還要趕多少路才安眠Stopping By Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though. He will not see me stopping here, To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer, To stop without a farmhouse near, Between the woods and frozen lake, The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake, To ask if there is some mistake. The o