Frost's poetic career is very long, which lasted from the beginning of this century to the 1960s, far beyond the end of the Second World War. In addition, he has a long-lasting readership, so he is an important great American poet, spanning both modern and contemporary periods. Frost pretended to be a realist, but he said, "There are two kinds of realists: one is to show a potato with a lot of dirt to show that it is a real potato; On the other hand, I like scrubbed potatoes. " He said, "I tend to be the second one." In my opinion, the function of art is to purify life. "He believes in the positive social effects of poetry. Therefore, although he is famous as an pastoral poet, he is different from the traditional pastoral poet and some modernist poets who escape from reality and indulge in self-seeking. He's alive. He believes that individuals can't be divorced from society, and he is critical of all kinds of disadvantages of capitalist industrial and commercial society. However, his response to that annoying social problem is often sad but not hurt, complaining but not angry. If there is a taste of "quarrel" occasionally, it is just a "quarrel between lovers" as he himself said. "He believes that there is one thing in the human spirit that is enough to save himself and fight against chaos, and that is love. In terms of creative methods, he drew up a title for himself, called Juyu School. The so-called quotation refers to the partial expression of the whole, and the individual reflects the general, seeing the big from the small, and being near is far away. In the preface of one of his poems, 1946, he wrote: "Poetry is only made up of metaphors" and "Every poem is essentially a new metaphor, otherwise it is not a poem"; He also said, "A well-written poem must be a big or small symbol". The preface is entitled "Eternal Symbol", but he rejected the concept of "symbolism". On another occasion, he said that he would rather call himself a "tired faction", and he respected what he said without showing it. He advocates that "poetry begins with interest and ends with wisdom", that is to say, poetry should give people aesthetic enjoyment and ideological enlightenment.
There is inheritance and development in form, which is a great event for tradition. He disapproved of free verse, thinking that "free verse means playing tennis without using the net", although he occasionally played such tennis later. For example, the early Fire and Ice is like a free poem, but he always attaches importance to "sentence sound". The rhythm of his poems is often "loose iambic", and some rhymes are carefully designed, such as "stopping by the forest on a snowy night". His language is neither exaggerated nor polished, and he strives to draw simple, fresh and vital nutrition from the folk spoken language and dialects he heard today. His views on language will remind people of Wordsworth. He believes that "poetic words often appear in the spoken language of ordinary people, and the tone of daily conversation is the source of poetry." Pasture can be considered as the best example. Frost is not only good at lyricism, but also good at narration. Most of his narrative poems take the form of monologues or dialogues, using refined spoken language and dialects directly, which are rhythmic, blank and full of drama, and often look like a one-act play. Death of an Employee is an outstanding masterpiece of Frost's narrative poems, which was once put on the stage as a one-act play and achieved great success. This poem depicts three characters, and the best one is the employee who has never appeared, worked hard all his life, was exhausted and finally died. He is poor and has a strong self-esteem. He would rather sell his labor force to make a living than humbly beg the pity of his rich brother who is a bank director. He works hard, cares about others very much, is honest, but ignorant. Old, like a squeezed lemon, desperate, homeless, maybe even come to a bad end. Because the soul is noble and beautiful, it is the hostess Mary, who is gentle and kind, full of tenderness for her peers and represents the love advertised by Frost. Warren, as an employer, although he is only an upper-middle class farmer who employs a small number of seasonal workers but is not rich according to our classification standards, he still has the spiritual characteristics of an employer. When he thinks of this employee, his first thought is whether it is useful or not. Like love and problems, Frost often uses the smallest cell of society-family to symbolize the whole society. In the nearly 200-line narrative poem Death of an Employee, he wrote an episode of life in an American agricultural area, but it reflected some major problems of the whole country, the plight of poor workers, interpersonal relationships under the control of money and so on. Frost's poems, whether lyric or narrative, are like simple ink paintings: plain, light and tasteful.
Diligence and idleness ruin success.
Time is money!
I think, therefore I am!
Don't bury your head in the cart, look up at the road.
Ambition paves the way to heaven, and courage knocks on the door of wisdom. Ambition/courage is very important.