Robert Frost,born in San Francisco died in Boston,Robert Frost (1874-1963),Contents,Life Story,Works,Two Poems,Success Abroad,About poem,Life Story,1874 born 1885 father died, family moved to Lawrence Massachusetts 1892 graduated from Lawrence High School. attended Dartmouth College for two months, then worked at various jobs 1894 sold his first poem My Butterfly, An Elegy我的蝴蝶：一首挽歌for $15. proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White 1895 got married 1897-1899 attended Harvard University (left for illness) 1900 mother died soon later, unseccessful farm-English teacher at New Hampshires Pinkerton,Life Story,1912 family moved to England 1913 published A Boys Will 1914 published North of Boston 1915 returned to America (W W I ). bought farm, launched the career of writing teaching and lecturing 1924 1931 1937 1943 four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 普利策奖 1961 was invited to read his poem The Gift Outright全心全意的奉献( at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy ( first American poet) 1963 died in Boston,Tragedy and Depression,Daughters: Lesley and Irma- unhappy marriages and painful divorces; Irma was at one point committed to a mental hospital, as Frosts sister had been some years earlier. Marjorie - suffering from pneumonia肺炎, a pericardiac infection心包感染, chronic appendicitis慢性阑尾炎 and nervous exhaustion神经衰弱.died in 1934, Son: In October 1940 Carol committed suicide Wife: In March 1938 Elinor herself died of heart disease.,Success Abroad,gained international reputation. A Boys Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), received over 40 honorary degrees, including ones from Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge universities, and was the only person to receive two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College. A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 普利策奖 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes 1931 for Collected Poems 1937 for A Further Range 1943 for A Witness Tree 1961 read The Gift Outright at the inauguration of John F.Kennedy (greatest honor) At the time of his death, Frost was regarded as a kind of unofficial poet laureate of the United States 非官方桂冠诗人,About poem,诗分为两大类：抒情短诗与戏剧性较强的叙事诗。 抒情诗主要描写了大自然和农民，尤其是新英格兰的景色和北方的农民。这些诗形象生动，具有很强的感染力，深受各个层次的读者喜爱。 叙事诗一般格调低沉，体现诗人思想和性格中阴郁的一面。 诗歌风格最大的特点是朴实无华，涵义隽永，寓深刻的思考和哲理于平淡无奇的内容和简洁朴实的诗句之中。 He believes that man is alone in the world, and things happen neither for good nor for evil, but they simply occur. Hence,making choices and keeping steadfast are the solutions to the predicament of life.,Frost stands at the crossroads of nineteenth-century American poetry and modernism, for in his verse may be found the culmination of many nineteenth-century tendencies and traditions as well as parallels to the works of his twentieth-century contemporaries . 弗罗斯特常被称为“交替性的诗人”，意指他处在传统诗歌和现代派诗歌交替的一个时期。他又被认为与T.S. 艾略特同为美国现代诗歌的两大中心。,Main Works,A Boys Will (1913) 少年的意志 North of Boston (1914) 波士顿以北 Mountain Interval (1916) 山间 West-Running Brook (1928) 西去的溪流 A Further Range (1936) 又一片牧场 A Masque of Reason (1945) 理智的假面具 In the Clearing (1962) 林间空地 Mending Wall 修墙 Death of the Hired Man 雇工之死 The Road Not Taken 未选择之路 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 雪夜林边驻足,The Road Not Taken,Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; 黄色的树林里分出两条路 可惜我不能同时去涉足 我在那路口久久伫立 我向着一条路极目望去 直到它消失在丛林深处,Then took the other, as just as fairAnd 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, 但我却选了另外一条路 它荒草萋萋十分幽寂 显得更诱人更美丽 虽然在这两条小路上 都很少留下旅人的足迹,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden blackOh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back. 虽然那天清晨落叶满地 两条路都未经脚印污染 呵，留下一条路等改日再见！ 但我知道路径延绵无尽头 恐怕我难以再回返,I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. 也许多少年后在某个地方 我将轻声叹息把往事回顾 一片树林里分出两条路 而我选了人迹更少的一条 从此决定了我的一生的道路,Conclusion,Different road will lead us to see different types of scenery, before you choose which road to take , think it carefully,do not follow the flow（随波逐流） After you take the road just do your best to walk your road and enjoy the scenery on the road. Everyone is a traveler on the road of life; everyone has to make many choices in his life, and every choice will bring about a different outcome.,Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. 我知道林子的主人是谁 虽然村落是他的所居之地 他不会看到我停留于此 凝视他的林子雪花纷飞,My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. 我的小马一定以我为怪 近无房舍为何停伫 况且有林子与冰湖 和一年中最黑之夜,He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sounds the sweep Of easy wind