Robert Frost1.His life.

2.His poetry.

3.His contribution .

His life Robert Frost was

born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and

writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, "My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent .In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her

death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length collections, A Boy's Will and North of Boston, and his reputation was established.

By the nineteen twenties, he was the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including New Hampshire (1923), A Further Range (1936), Steeple

Bush (1947), and In the Clearing (1962)—his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased.

Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his

adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony. Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963, in Boston.

Enroll 註冊 Dartmouth College 達斯茅思學院 Harvard 哈佛大學

Formal 正式的 degree 學位 drift 漂泊

string 一連串 occupation 職業 cobbler 修鞋匠

Editor 編輯 publish 公開發表 The Independent 報紙名

inspiration 啟發 New Hampshire 書名 Influence 影響力

contemporary 同時期的 Rupert Brooke 名詩人 Robert Graves 名詩人

Establish 帶來 Ezra Pound 龐德 名詩人 reputation 名聲

Honor 美譽 Pulitzer Prizes 普利茲獎金 principally 重要的

Associate 結合 landscape 心田 traditional 傳統的

Verse 詩句 form 體裁 metric 詩韻

Remained 留下 steadfastly 固定的 aloof 冷漠的Poetic 浪漫的 movement 韻律 meditation 沉思merely 只有 regional 方言的 universal 一般性 quintessentially 精華的 Adherence 堅持 psychological影響心靈 complexity 複雜 Portrait 人物 layer 層次 ambiguity 模糊不清 irony 諷刺

Nothing Gold Can Stay黃金事物難久留

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay

自然的初綠是為金 ,

她這種色彩最難存 .

她的新葉像朵花 ;

但也只能保剎那 .

之後葉復褪為葉 .

同理伊甸淪悲切 ,

同理清晨沉為晝 .

黃金事物難久留

His poetry

The Road Not Taken未走的路

兩條路在黃色的樹林間叉開，可惜我不能走兩條路。我這個過客久久徘徊，極目望去，一條路在遠處，蜿蜒地進入樹林荒蕪； 我向另一條路望去，同樣平坦，

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,,

And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

也許它更值得行走，因為它長滿茸茸綠草，等待人們的踐踏；雖然它也已紛亂，行人在這裡過往奔沓。那天清晨，兩條路上覆滿樹葉，沒有腳步把它們踏碎。啊，哪一天我將走第一條路！雖然我知道條條路相接，

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, andI took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

我仍懷疑是否仍能走回原路。我將把這事告訴別人，一面深深嘆息。樹林中有兩股岔道，而我走的那條路行人稀少，這就造成了一切的差異。

His contributionA. His contributions rest on his masterful uniting of

iambic meter with the freedom of the spoken voice, which means Frost experiments with his style of setting traditional meter with natural rhythms of speech.

B. In style, Frost loves "the old way of being new." For him, the traditional form is the essence of poetry, materials with which poets respond to flux and disorder by forging something

permanent. "Writing free verse," Frost thinks, "was like playing tennis without a net." A good poem "begins in delight and ends in wisdom."