文档介绍：Robert Frost(1874-1963)※ 4 Pulitzer Prizes※ read poetry at a presidential inauguration.※ received honorary degrees from 44 colleges※ unofficial poet Laureate, one of the most celebrated American’s modernist Introduction?born 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 boy’s will(1913). ?Determined to win recognition in his native land, Frost returned to the US and settled on a farm in his native land.?By the end of his life he had e a national poet; he received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes; the United States senate passed resolutions honoring his birthdays and when he was eighty-seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. . Main Works?A Boy’s Will1913 <<一个男孩的意愿>>?North of Boston, 1914 << 波士顿的北部>>?Mountain Interval, 1916 <<山间>>?New Hampshire1923 <<新罕布什尔>>?Collected Poems 1930 <<诗集>>?A Further Range1936 <<又一片牧场>>?A Witness Tree1942 <<见证树>>III. Frost’s View and Theme?His poetry concerns New England’s 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