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第6卷 第1期 红河学院学报 V01．6 No．1 2008年2月 Jounal of Honghe University Feb．2008 Metaphor and Symbolism：Two Typical Features of Frost’s，Poetry CHEN Yan LI Si—hong2 (1．Yunnan Vocational CoHege of Tropical Crops，Pu’er 665000，China； 2．International College of Honghe University，Mengzi 661 100，China) Abstract：With its seemingly simplicity and ambiguity in language but rich implications in thinking，Frost’s poetry often produces a rewarding and~tlng impression on the readers．The authors hold that the main characteristics ofhis poetry are metaphor and symbolism， and his falnoll8 typical poems reveal profound philosophical ideas that are Frost’s interpretation oflife and existence as well as the relation- ship between man and nature． Key words：Robert Frost；metaphor；symbolism；philosophical connotation 中图分类号：1712．2 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1008—9128(2008)01-0068一o4 Robert Frost(1874—1963)is one ofthe greatest PO- I Metaphor and Symbolism ets in the 20th century American literature．Four times of Metaphor is so important in poetry that poetry has the Pulitzer Prize winner，Frost received honors from forty almost become the art of metaphors，as the Spanish es- — four institutions，and became the nation’s unofficial sayist and philosopher Jose Ortega Y Gasset says that Poet Laureate and in 1961 recited his poem “The Gift “Poetry has become the higher algebra of meta- Outright’’at the inauguration of President John F．Ken- phor．’’[ 】彻“Metaphor is a figure of speech in which the nedy．a残Ire case in Am erican history． quality of one is transferred onto anothe r．’’C2136 Frost ar-