Robert Frost (1874- 1963) is one of the most popular poets in the United States, leaving many well-known works, such as the glade, The Road Not Taken and Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night.
1874 Robert frost was born in San Francisco on March 26th. 1 1 lost his father and moved to new England with his mother. Since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with this land. Frost/Kloc-began to learn to write poetry at the age of 0/6, and officially published his first poem at the age of 20. He worked hard and published more than 10 poems in his life. He went through hardships all his life, losing his father in childhood, his wife in middle age and his son (daughter) in old age. After becoming famous, Frost was employed by many universities and often went out to read poems and give speeches. "He often drags his tired body home." Images related to loneliness, despair and death often appear in his poems, such as winter, snow, ice, frost and dead leaves. Therefore, Frost often uses withered roses and dried flowers as metaphors to contrast the lonely, sad and lonely inner world. 1895 12 19 got married. In the next two years, my wife and I helped my mother manage a private school. During this period, he wrote poems and submitted them to various publications, but they were rarely published. The first poem he sold, My Butterfly: Elegy, was published in Independence, a literary weekly of 1894.
1In the autumn of 897, Frost entered Harvard University in order to become a middle school Latin and Greek teacher. However, in less than two years, he interrupted his studies because of lung disease and engaged in raising chickens. 1900, his family moved to the farm that his grandfather bought for him in Delhi, New Hampshire. Failing to run a farm, he taught again (1906- 19 12). Before and after this, he roamed many places on foot and was regarded as "the peasant poet of New England". Most of his most famous poems were written in Delhi, but they didn't interest the editors.
19 12, Frost led his family to move to England. During my stay in London, I met ezra pound, E Thomas, t·e· Hume, w·w· Gibson, L Haybach Lamby and other poets. With the help of these friends, a publishing company in London immediately accepted his collection of lyric poems and published it in 19 13 under the title of a boy's will. Then, his narrative poetry collection "North of Boston" was published in 19 14. The enthusiastic praise of British critics has attracted the attention of American publishing circles. Three American publishing companies immediately asked him for the manuscript.
After the beginning of World War I, Frost returned to the United States in February of 19 15 to run a farm in New Hampshire. It coincided with the publication of his first two poems in new york. It was warmly welcomed by American readers. Since then, his fame has greatly increased, ending the era of obscurity. After that, he won the Pulitzer Prize four times (New Hampshire by 1924, Selected Poems by193, Another Ranch by 1937 and A Tree Testimony by 1943). He has taught or conducted research at Amherst College, University of Michigan and Harvard University. He is very interested in botany. Most of the poems in the boy's will are about plants. Nature is of religious significance to him.
His poetry is very attractive to all kinds of readers, because it can be appreciated in many different ways. In terms of poetic creation techniques, it is completely different from most poets in the 20th century. Instead of experimenting and reforming the form of poetry, he repeatedly claimed that he was satisfied with "expressing new content in old forms" He studied Wordsworth, an English romantic poet in the19th century, expressed his feelings in a language close to that used by ordinary men and women, and described events and scenes in daily life. Therefore, his works are "without poetry" compared with the affectation and sentimental poems that were all the rage before the First World War. He was also influenced by Browning, an English poet in the19th century, and used dramatic monologues or dialogues in his poems. His study of ancient Greek and Latin writers, especially Toth and Virgil, laid the foundation for his pastoral writing. He used popular language, well-known rhythm, metaphors and symbols commonly used in daily life to describe the moral customs of the quiet countryside in New England. However, his poems do not only record neglected natural things or the behavior of rural villagers. His description of nature often contains profound, symbolic and even metaphysical significance. His excellent poems often go beyond the direct relationship between personal appearance and inner world, others, nature and the whole universe, and explain the values on which his profound religious beliefs are based in some way. Although a considerable part of his poems describe fear and doubt, the general trend is positive.
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. He was very conspicuous at the inauguration ceremony of John F. Kennedy in 196 1, and recited his poem "Almighty" specially written for this occasion. 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 unnecessary. 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 various variants of traditional blank verse and four-line verse, which often rhyme and have their 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 thomas eliot are 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. 1On October 29th, Frost died in Boston.