Born in San Francisco, California, was of New England parentage. When he was ten, his father died and his mother took him back to Massachusetts. In 1894 he sold his first poem, “My Butterfly: An Elegy”(20)
All the images (woods, stars, houses) he uses reflect the poet‟s love for nature and life, his sad experience in life and the influence religion exerted upon western people‟s daily life.
Robert's grandfather purchased a farm for Robert and Elinor in New Hampshire, and Robert worked the farm for nine years, while producing many of the poems that would later become famous. In 1912 Frost took his and four young children to England, where he published his first book of poems, “A Boy‟s Will”《少年的 意志》(1913), which immediately won him a recognition he had not found in America.(39)
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
雪夜林边驻脚
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. 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. He gives his harness bells a shake, To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound„s the sweep, Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep .
He made some important acquaintances there. After that he published “North of Boston”《波士顿以北》，which was highly praised by British critics. As World War I began, Frost returned to America in 1915 and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing.(41)
Some famous poems
The Road Not Taken《未选择的路》 Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 《雪夜林边驻脚》 Fire and Ice《火与冰》 Mending Wall《补墙》 Nothing Gold Can Stay《美景易逝》 The Birches《白桦树》
Life
He married Elinor Miriam White at Lawrence, Massachusetts on December 19, 1895.(21)
He entered college twice, Dartmouth and Harvard. Frost studied at Harvard for two years(1897~1899), but left without receiving a degree due to family problems and poor health.
He is a poet of profound simplicity(朴素). He did not write free verse but in the traditional metrical (韵律的) forms--rhymed stanzas and blank verse. He used the old forms in a new way.
想来我认识这座森林， 林主的庄宅就在邻村, 却不会见我在此驻马， 看他林中积雪的美景。 我的小马一定颇惊讶： 四望不见有什么农家， 偏是一年最暗的黄昏， 寒林和冰湖之间停下。 它摇一摇身上的串铃， 问我这地方该不该停。 此外只有轻风拂雪片， 再也听不见其他声音。 森林又暗又深真可羡， 但我还要守一些诺言， 还要赶多少路才安眠， 还要赶多少路才安眠
In his view, a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom”. 诗要“兴于喜悦，而终于彻悟”
Achievements In 1930 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1958 he was poetry consultant for the Library of Congress Frost was awarded the Pulitzer (普利策奖) four times and received honorary degrees(名誉学位) from 44 colleges and universities.
The Books of Poetry
New Hampshire 《新罕布什尔》 Collected Poems 《诗歌精选》 A Further Range 《又一片牧场》 A Witness Tree 《见证树》
Characters of h源自s poemsFrost‟s poems show deep appreciation of natural world and sensibility about the human aspirations.
In 1961 he was invited to read his poetry I at had a inauguration( lover‟s quarrel with) the world. the 就职典礼 of President John F. Kennedy.” The Gift Outright ”《全 我和这个世界有过情人般的争吵。 才》 At the time of his death on January 29,1963, Frost was considered as a kind of unofficial wing poet laureate( of oar. the Together to wing, 桂冠诗人 and oar)to US. 在天比翼，在地同舟。
His poetic language was plain, clearly conveying a feeling in harmony with nature.
He seemed universally calm and controlled, standing in the middle of the road viewing good and evil, beautiful and ugly.