Robert_Frost美国文学史.ppt

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY Natures first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leafs a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Robert Frost (1874一1963) Robert Frost’s Life Story Robert Frost’s Life Story Robert Frost’s Life Story His lifes ambition: to write a few poems it will be hard to get rid of. I. Major works: 1913, A Boy’s Will 1914 North of Boston “The Death of a Hired Man” “After Apple-Picking” “ Mending Wall” 1916, Mountain Interval “The Rod Not Taken”, “Birches” 1923, New Hampshire, The first Pulitzer Prize “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”- examplify the ability to join the pastoral and philosophical modes in lyrics of unforgettable beauty. 1928, West-Running Brook 1930, Collected Poems the second Pulitzer Prize 1935, Further Range the third Pulitzer Prize 1942, Witness Tree the fourth Pulitzer Prize  II. Features: 1. Deceptive simplicity Im always saying something thats just the edge of something more. He boasted that he “dropped to an everyday level of diction that even wordsworth kept above”. 2. figurative language “Metaphor is the whole of poetry…… Every poem is a new metaphor inside or it is nothing.” “Poetry is simply made of metaphor.” Poetry was “saying one thing and meaning another, saying one thing in terms of another, the pleasure of ulterioity”. 3. Combination of tradition and modernism: iambic feet, blank verse, etc, with local speech rhythm. “I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.” “The sentence sounds are very definite entities….They are gathered by the ear from the vernacular and brought into books.” 4. themes: a. basic themes of human life: love, friendship, family, social relationships; (New England poet) b. finding sufficient faith in the self, nature, and the cosmos to fuel persis