聊城大学外国语学院美国文学史与选读课件 lecture18.ppt

Frost’s Poetic Features Naturalness: clear diction, New England everyday language, colloquial rhythms, simple images, folksy speaker (like conversing with somebody), a thoughtful reply to high modernism’s fondness for obscurity and difficulty. Ruralism (like modernist’s fondness of nature) combined with poetic traditionality which for Frost is the essence of poetry. Robert Frost said that poetry was “one step backward taken,” resisting time—a “momentary stay against confusion.” Quatrain, blank verse, and sonnet Farm images New England regionalism (rejecting modernist’s internationalism); rura