Abstract
Robert Frost is a great New England poet in the history of American literature in the twentieth century. His poetry concerns the innocent rural life and beautiful landscape of New England he loves. Meanwhile his poetry reflects the depression and corruption of city life. His poetry is created by no means with only imagination but firmly rooted in his frustrated but glorious experience, and the emotion from which it is produced, especially in the love for New England people and their life, which is revealed in his verses. Therefore, only through understanding his life experiences, reading and understanding his poetry, can we really understand his spiritual world. In this paper, by analyzing some of his representative poems, we can better know much about his spiritual world.
Key words: Frost; life experiences; poetry; spiritual world
探索弗罗斯特的精神世界
内容提要
弗罗斯特是20世纪美国文学史上伟大的新英格兰诗人之一。他的诗歌主要描写他所热爱的新英格兰质朴的乡村生活及乡村美景, 同时也反映城市生活的堕落。他的诗歌决非仅靠想象创作而成,而是深深扎根于他充满挫折和辉煌的生活经历以及由此产生的感情,特别是他对新英格兰人民和生活的热爱。这种感情洋溢在每句诗行中。因此,通过了解他的生活经历,阅读和理解他的诗歌我们才可以真正走入他的精神世界。在本论文中,通过分析他的几首代表诗作,可以帮助我们更好地了解他的精神世界。
关键词:弗罗斯特; 生活经历; 诗歌; 精神世界
Poetry is not simply something we learn at school and forget quickly. It can be fun, evocative and exciting to read. Furthermore, it is the outstanding poets that create so many beautiful poems full of magic imagination. Robert Frost is such a poet, popular and respectable in American literature of the twentieth century. Frost’s poetry, which exposes the different deep themes and his philosophy of life, brings us into his spiritual world.
Robert Frost is considered to be American national poet, enjoying high fame and reputation in the world. He is a lyrical poet, an authentic painter of local landscape. His poetry is always his delightful experience. He won the Pulitzer prize four times and received commendations by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America respectively in 1938 and 1941. He received honors from forty-four institutions, and became the nation’s unofficial poet laureate when invited to read his poem “ The Gift Outright” at President Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. “ Readers tend to find wit and wisdom, peace and harmony, serenity and joy from his poetry”. (常耀信,2003:198)
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, 1874. At ten, his father died and he was sent to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took interest in classical literature and romantic lyric poetry. Besides, he tried to write poetry. On April 1890,he published “La Noche Triste” in the school journals. In 1892, Frost went and studied in Dartmouth College but quickly dropped out of it. In 1894,his poem “My Butterfly” was carried by The Independence, a New York famous magazine for literature, which increased his confidence to continue writing poetry. In December 1895, Frost got married. In 1900,the death of his first child brought his family into deep sorrow and caused the tense relation of the family. In order to relax the tension, the Frost’s bought a farm and lived there until September 1907. The farm life was very important for Frost. He drifted through a string of occupations, working as a teacher, cobbler, journalist, an editor and then an unsuccessful farmer. Although he suffered great hardship of life, he insisted on writing poems. Actually, those days for him were so gloomy that he had the idea of suicide. But during that very period, he encountered New England country life and carefully observed the pastoral scenery and listened to New England peasant’s daily chat, the language of whom sounded simple but beautiful like music. Thus, the ten years country life played a decisive role in the formation of his style. The poetry created at that period was collected in his first three collections of poems.

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