Robert_Frost_及其诗三首的介绍范例.ppt

born in San Francisco in 1874. his mother brought him to New England at his eleven, with which his poetry has always been associated. After graduating from high school in 1892, Frost entered Dartmouth College but soon left to work at old jobs and to write poetry. In 1897, he was accepted as a special student by Harvard but withdrew after two years because of his increasing dislike for academic convention. For the next twelve years, Frost made a minimal living by teaching and farming while continuing to write his poems. In 1912, he and his family moved to England, where he found a publisher for his first book of verse, A boy’s will (1913). Determined to win recognition in his native land, Frost returned to the US and settled on a farm in his native land. By the end of his life he had become a national poet; he received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes; the United States senate passed resolutions honoring his birthdays and when he was eighty-seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. A Boy’s Will 1913 一个男孩的意愿 North of Boston, 1914 波士顿的北部 Mountain Interval, 1916 山间 New Hampshire 1923 新罕布什尔 Collected Poems 1930 诗集 A Further Range 1936 又一片牧场 A Witness Tree 1942 见证树 His poetry concerns New England’s nature. He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol, so his concern with nature reflected deep moral uncertainties. His poetry often probes mysterious of darkness and irrationality in the bleak and chaotic landscapes of an indifferent universe. The quest of the solitary person to make sense of the world has become the central theme of all Frost’s collections and made his poetry among the most accessible of modern writers. The poetry of Robert Frost combined pastoral imagery with solitary philosophical themes. rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, used traditional forms such a