Robert Frost is one of the most popular poets in America in the 20th century. He devoted himself to poetry creation all his life, creating and publishing 65,438+00 poems.
Robert Frost (1874- 1963) was born in a teacher's family in San Francisco and spent his childhood in the western United States. After graduating from high school, he studied at Harvard University for two years and then dropped out. Before and after this, he worked as a textile worker, a teacher, ran a farm and traveled a lot. At the same time, he began to write poems, but his poems did not attract attention in America at first.
19 12 years first frost was 38 years old. This year, he made an important choice: give up his teaching career in normal schools, give up his life that might have been more dull and stable, and choose poetry. He said to himself, "write poetry, and be poor if you are poor."
After discussion, the couple decided to change places and find an environment with a lower living standard but more conducive to writing poems. So they sold the farm they inherited from their grandfather, took a little savings from several years of teaching, crossed the ocean to England, and found a new home in a wooden house in a village not far from London. Soon after, his first book of poetry, The Will of Children, was published, and soon won the praise of the poet for its unique simplicity, frankness and sincerity. Pound, a famous American poet, has long recommended it as the best collection of poems in America.
Frost returned to America and ran a farm in New Hampshire. Since then, his poems have become more and more famous. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times in 1924, 193 1, 1937 and 1943 respectively, 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. Frost's poems often begin with describing the natural scenery or customs of New England, and gradually enter the field of philosophy. He is called "the poet of New England". This is related to the description of the natural scenery or customs of New England in his poems. Rock pastures in the north of Boston, colonial buildings, intriguing stone fences, and the rough feelings of the residents there and the hardships of farming life have all become inexhaustible materials for the poet's works. His poems give a panoramic view of the face of new England and the characteristics of local people. It can be said that Frost wrote about all aspects of rural life in New England.
However, Frost did not indulge in describing beautiful mountains and rivers and charming scenery. Although his poems maintain some traditional forms and rhythms, the atmosphere is also very relaxed.