After graduating from high school, I studied at Harvard University for two years. Before and after this, I worked as a textile worker, a teacher, ran a farm and began to write poems. He roamed many places on foot and was known as "the peasant poet of New England".
Frost's poems did not attract attention in America at first. 19 12 after his family moved to Britain, he continued to write poems, and got the support and encouragement of some British and American poets, ezra pound, and published the collection of poems Young Will (19 13) and North Boston (196544).
19 15 returned to the United States to run a farm in New Hampshire.
His poems are becoming more and more famous. 1924, 193 1, 1937, 1943 won the Pulitzer Prize four times, and worked as a teacher, resident poet and poetry consultant in many famous universities.
In his later years, he was an unofficial poet laureate in the United States. On his 75th and 85th birthdays, the US Senate made a resolution to honor him.
His poetry is similar to traditional poetry in form, but it is not as artificial as romantic and aesthetical poets. He does not pursue external beauty. His poems often begin with describing the natural scenery or customs of New England and gradually enter the field of philosophy.
His poems are unpretentious, but subtle and intriguing. The famous poem "Birch Tree" wrote that most people always want to escape from reality, but in the end they have to come back to reality.
"Repairing the Wall" wrote that there are many tangible and intangible walls in the world that are worthless.
In addition to short lyric poems, he also has some dramatic long narrative poems, which describe the spiritual outlook of rural people in New England, and the tone is relatively low and quite distinctive.
In terms of meter, Frost likes to use variations of traditional blank poems and sonnets, which has its own characteristics in rhythm.
Frost is often called an "alternative poet", which means that he is in a period of alternation between traditional poetry and modernist poetry. He and Eliot are also called the two centers of modern American poetry.
Frost's famous poems include Mountains (19 16), New Hampshire (1923), Xixi (1928) and Another Ranch (1936). The whole poem was published in 1949, and new works were published one after another.
Frost is often called a "transitional poet", which means that he is in a period of alternation between traditional poetry and modernist poetry.
One of the reasons why Frost's poems are very popular is that his poetry style is unpretentious and can be understood by people without much school education.
While many poets are keen on poetry experiments, he insists on describing his daily events in everyday language, from which he can find unique wisdom and philosophy. The description is exquisite and thought-provoking, which can make people often read and be new.
At present, Robert Stirling, a graduate student of English literature at the University of Virginia in the United States, has discovered an unpublished Frost poem called "The Thought of War at Home".
In a letter written in 1947, Frost mentioned this poem to his friend Frederic Melcher, the founder of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly.
Frost said in his letter that this poem was not published, but was handwritten in a book "North of Boston" (the second poem published by Frost).
After reading this letter, Stirling began to look for it, and finally found the book in the school library. The poems that Frost copied in the book came out.
Frost wrote this poem to Edward Thomas in 19 18 (1878- 19 17). He was an English poet who died on the battlefield in France.
The content of the poem is that a soldier's wife saw several bluebirds fighting outside the window, and she thought of the soldiers on the French battlefield. At the beginning of World War I, Frost lived in England, so he became friends with Thomas.
When Thomas was killed at the front, he took with him a book "The Gap between Mountains" written by Frost.
As a modern poet, in the form of poetry, Frost walked out of a completely different road from most poets in the 20th century.
Instead of trying to reform the form of poetry, he inherited the tradition and was satisfied with expressing new content in the old form. He likes to use plain spoken English, with a gentle and calm tone and familiar rhythm.
His poems generally follow the traditional rhythmic forms, such as rhyming double lines, three lines, four lines and sonnets, and they are all well written.
Frost seldom writes free verse. He once said that poetry without rhyme is like tennis without cover. He seems to have a soft spot for iambic. He once said, "For English poetry, iambic and slightly changed iambic are the only natural rhythms."
Indeed, among the four main steps of English poetry-iambic, iambic, iambic and iambic, iambic is by far the most common step in English poetry, so it is also called the most natural rhythm, that is, a weak pronunciation followed by a stressed syllable.
Poems written in this cadence have a distinct rhythm, continuous, gentle and smooth, which is more suitable for expressing the quiet and simple beauty of rural scenery. No wonder Frost likes iambic in several traditional iambic.
The greatest feature of his poetry writing is that he is good at expressing a profound philosophy with seemingly insignificant things in front of him. It is precisely because he is good at saying abstract concepts with concrete things that his poems are easily accepted and understood by readers! Stopping by the Woods on a snowy night and The Road Not Taken are obvious examples!
No wonder these two poems have been in the top ten of the most popular 100 English poems! The former has been ranked first for a long time!
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