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Literary Achievements Frost mainly wrote about the landscape and people in New England. He wrote many poems that investigate the basic theme of mans life. His works: My butterfly 我的蝴蝶 A Boy’s Will 少年的意志 North of Boston 波士顿以北 Mountain Interval 山间 New Hampshire 新罕布什尔 West-Running Brook 向西流去的小溪 A Further Range 又一片牧场 Mending Wall 修墙 After Apple-Picking 摘苹果之后 The Birches 白桦树 A Witness Tree 见证树 Steeple Bush 尖塔丛 A Masque of Mercy 假慈悲 Collected Poems 诗选 Complete Poems 诗歌全集 In the Clearing 林间空地 won Pulitzer Prize 4 times Appointed as professor or visiting poet by dozens of universities Be entitled “national poet” by American senate at age of 75 Recited his poem The Gift Outright on Inauguration Day of John Kennedy 全心全意的奉献 Last poem at age of 88 His style Frost took no part in the literary movement in the 20th century. He did not experiment with form, as many poets did in the 1920s. He used conventional forms, plain and a graceful style. His poems were very carefully constructed yet he made them seem effortless by using colloquial language and familiar, conversational rhythms. Images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from the simple country life and the pastoral landscape that can be easily understood--mowing, scything, winds rustling in the grass, birds singing, as well as ponds, roads, the cycle of the seasons, and the alteration of night and day.Most of Frost s poems are short and direct on the information level, and they have simple diction. However, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form.By using simple spoken language and conversational rhythms, Frost achieved an effortless grace in his style. He combined traditional verse forms sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse. He wrote in both the metrical forms and the free verse, and sometimes he wrote in a form that borrows freely from the merits of both, in the form that might be called semi-free or semi-conventiona