Robert Frost(1874-1963) 4 Pulitzer Prizes(普利策奖 ) read poetry at a presidential inauguration. received honorary degrees from 44 colleges unofficial poet Laureate, one of the most celebrated Americans modernist poetsBiographical IntroductionBorn in San Francisco in 1874. His mother brought him to New England at his eleven, with which his poetry has always been associated. After graduating from high school in 1892, Frost entered Dartmouth College but soon left to work at old jobs and to write poetry. In 1897, he was accepted as a special student by Harvard but withdrew after two years because of his increasing dislike for academic convention. For the next twelve years, Frost made a minimal living by teaching and farming while continuing to write his poems. In 1912, he and his family moved to England, where he found a publisher for his first book of verse, A boys will (1913) Determined to win recognition in his native land, Frost returned to the US and settled on a farm in his native land.In 1914, Frosts second book, North of Boston, was published by David Nutt.In 1915, Frost relocated his family to Franconia, New Hampshire. American editions of his first two poetry books were published by Henry Holt and Company.1916 Invited to Phi Beta Kappa Day at Harvard1924 Frost received Pulitzer Prize for New Hampshire.1931 The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Collected Poems and also received the Russell Loines Poetry Prize.1936 Frost became Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. 1937 The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to A Further Range. 1943 Frost was awarded his fourth Pulitzer for A Witness Tree. 1950 United States Senate adopted resolution honoring Frost on the occasion of his seventy-fifth (actually 76th) birthday.1957 He traveled to England and was awarded an honorary Litt. D. by Oxford and Cambridge Universities and National University of Ireland.1959 Frost was honored by a Senate resolution on his eighty-fifth birthday. 1961 John F. Kennedy invited Frost to read at the inauguration. He recited “The Gift Outright” by heart.1963 Robert Lee Frost died on January 29 in Boston. He was buried with Elinor and other family members in the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.“ “I had a lovers quarrel with the world.”I had a lovers quarrel with the world.” Frosts epitaphFrosts epitaphMain WorksCollection of poems: A Boys Will 1913 North of Boston, 1914 Mountain Interval, 1916 New Hampshire 1923 Collected Poems 1930 A Further Range 1936 A Witness Tree 1942 Poems:Birches 白桦 After Apple-Picking摘罢苹果 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 雪夜伫立林边有感 The Road Not Taken 未选择的路 Arkey WorksFrosts View and ThemeHis poetry concerns New Englands nature. He saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol, so his concern with nature reflected deep moral uncertainties.His poetry often probes mysterious of darkness and irrationality in the bleak and chaotic landscapes of an indifferent universe.The quest of the solitary person to make sense of the world has become the central theme of all Frosts collections and made his poetry among the most accessible ofmodern writers. The poetry of Robert Frost combined pastoral imagery with solitary philosophical themes.Frosts StyleRejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, used traditional forms such as the blank verse, plain language of rural New Englanders, and a graceful style. There is a steady tone of wry humor, and a virtually inexhaustible verbal grace. He used symbols from everyday country life to express his deep ideas. As a whole, Frosts art is an act of clarification, which, without simplifying the truth, renders it in some degree accessible to everyone.Frosts QuotesAbout Poetry Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.About Life The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: it goes on. I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. What we live by we die by. The best way out is always through. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. Before I built a wall Id ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.About Frost Im not a teacher, but an awakener. I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative wh