A Symbolistic Study of Robert Frost＇s＂The Road not Taken＂ and ＂Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening＂.pdfVIP

维普资讯 科技信息 0外语教研0 SCIENCETECItNOLOGYINFORMATION 2008年 第2O期 ASymbolisticStudyofRobertFrost’s“TheRoadnotTaken and“StoppingbyWoodsonaSnowyEvening 许楚娟 (韩山师范学院潮州师范分院英语系 广东 潮州 521011) SymbolismisamajorliterarytheorywhichisoftenadOptedbymany Somewhereagesandageshence： poets．Itreferstotheuseofsymbolstorepresentthings．RobertFrostis Tworoodsdivergedinawood，andj 一 amongthebestpoetswhoarewell—knownforthesymbolicpoems．His ，tookthe D， elsstrvaeledby． poemsareeasilyunderstoodsincetheyarewrittenlikeeverydayspeech． Andthathasmadeallthe dffierence．” RobertFrostusesnaturalsymbolism inalotofhispoems．Hehaswritten Thelaststanzatellsusthepoetfinallychosetheroadfewerpeople aboutthenatural scenesandwildlifesomuchthatsomepeopleconsider traveled．Here，thepo etusesthesymbolicmethodonactioninsteadofon him asanaturepoet． the exactofrms．The action indicateshisregretofnotbeing able to “Theterm symbolism iswidelyapplied，butin itsmostusefuland choosebothroads． restricted sensereferstotheperiodc．1880-95．Themovementmaybe Inthepoem wementionedabove，wecaneasilynoticethatRobert seenasareaction againstdominantrealistandnaturalisttendenciesin Frostsuccessfullyusedthesymb olictechnique．Anotherpoem “Stopping literature generally and，in thecase ofpoetry，againstthe descriptive bywoodsonASnowy Evening”writtenin 1923byRobertFrostcanalso precisionnad o‘bjectivity’ofthePaynassians．Thesymbolistsstressed justifythis． “ the priority ofsuggestion