美国文学史之RobertFrost.pptVIP

Lecture Eighteen Robert Frost (1874-1963) Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a Hemlock tree Has given my heart A change a mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. Life San Francisco (1874) Harvard (1897) England (1912-1914) New Hampshire (1914) The Pulitzer Winner four times (1923,1930,1935,1942) Reading poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. Major Works A Boy’s Will (1913); North of Boston (1914); Mountain Interval , 1916 New Hampshire , 1923, Pulitzer Prize winner Collected Poems , 1930, Pulitzer Prize winner A Further Range , 1937, Pulitzer Prize winner A Witness Tree , 1942, Pulitzer Prize winner Style Wordsworthian style plain speech of rural New Englanders, Simple spoken diction and language A follower of traditional poetic modes, such as iambic pattern and pastoral mode of poetry symbols from everyday country life to express his deep ideas Thematic concerns Poetry as a reflection of the frustration, the fragmentation, solitude and alienation of modern experience: “What brought the kindred spider to that height,/ Then steered the white moth thither in the night?/ What but design of darkness to appall?\ If design govern in a thing so small.” (Design) “Three foggy mornings and one rainy day/ Will rot the best birch fence a man can build” (Home Burial) An effort to construct “a momentary stay against confusion and chaos”, such as the poems of “Birches” and “The Wood Pile” The Road Not Taken Analysis 1) a choice in life rather than a mere choice of roads; important decisions which one must make in life; one must accept the consequences, for he will not have a chance to go back. his bravery to go a road less traveled by; an unusual solitary life; a poet rather tha