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The Modern Period in American Literature;Biography Works and Style Selected works;Born in San Francisco in 1874. At the death of his father , when Frost was eleven , his mother brought him to Massachusetts . After graduating from high school in 1892, Frost entered Dartmouth College but soon left. In 1895, he got married. In order to support the family, he did odd jobs: teaching school and working in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. 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) In 1914, Frosts second book, North of Boston, was published by David Nutt. Determined to win recognition in his native land, Frost returned to the US and settled on a farm in his native land. In 1915, Frost relocated his family to New Hampshire. For forty-two years, from 1921 to his death, Frost spent almost every summer and fall teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College. In 1963, he died on January 29 in Boston. ;Works;2. Poems Birches After Apple-Picking Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Road Not Taken Acquainted with the Night 3. Plays A Way Out: A One Act Play (Harbor Press, 1929). The Cows in the Corn: A One Act Irish Play in Rhyme (Slide Mountain Press, 1929). A Masque of Reason (Holt, 1945). A Masque of Mercy (Holt, 1947). ;“ All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech.” 诗乃实际说话音调之复制品。 “ Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.” 诗歌如不讲韵律，就像打网球不设拦网一样。 ;Robert Frost also said:;Frosts style;Features of His Poems Profound meanings are hidden underneath the plain language and simple form. (1) His poems mostly wrote about nature (influenced by Wordsworth and Emerson) and New