chapter 7胡荫桐 美国文学选读

4). By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two fulllength collections, A Boy's Will (《少年的 意志》)and North of Boston (《波士顿之 北》), and his reputation was established. By the 1920s, he was the most celebrated poet in America, and with each new book—including New Hampshire (《新罕 布什尔》1923), A Further Range (《又一 片牧场》1936) – his fame and honors (including four Pulitzer Prizes) increased. .
3). Rhyme, Form and Meter Rhyme scheme: AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD The first two lines and the last line of each stanza rhyme together, whereas the third line introduces a new rhyme altogether. When the next stanza begins, three of the four lines rhyme with the third line of the previous stanza. Rubaiyat Stanza
The poem tells the story of a man traveling through some snowy woods on the darkest evening of the year, and he's pretty much in love with what he sees around him. He's on his way back to town, but he can't quite tear himself away from the lovely and dark woods.
3). In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after their New Hampshire farm failed. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
2). Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date. 3). The best known representatives of Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
2). The imagists hold that the most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominant image. 3). The three Imagist principles: the economy of expression, the use of a dominant image, a rhythm like that of a musical phrase.
2. Lost Generation 1). The LosБайду номын сангаас Generation is a term first used by Gertrude Stein to describe the postWorld War One generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war.
Whose woods these are I think I know. A His house is in the village though; A He will not see me stopping here B To watch his woods fill up with snow. A
5). About Frost, President John F. Kennedy said, "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding.― 6). Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.
2). Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor. His first professional poem, ―My Butterfly,‖ was published on November 8, 1894.
2). Frost is known for creating simple poems that can be interpreted on many different levels. He also loved to inject everyday, colloquial speech into his poems. He was big on sounds, often talking about how the sounds of words carry more meaning than the words themselves.
2). Theme Isolation Choices Man and the Natural World Nature is a beautiful siren in this poem, compelling the speaker to hang out in spite of the dangerous consequences.
3). Themes Love, friendship, family, social relationship Finding sufficient faith in the self, nature, and the cosmos to fuel persistence amid suffering and chaos Isolation and dependence
2). Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psychoanalysis as its theoretical case. 3). The modernist writers concentrate more on the private and subjunctive than on the public and objective, mainly concerned with the inner of an individual.
Ⅰ. Modernism
1. Modernism 1). Modernism is an international movement in literature and arts, especially in literary criticism, which began in the late 19th century and flourished until 1950s.
3. Imagism 1). Imagism came into being in U.S. around 1910 as a reaction to the traditional English poetry to express the sense of fragmentation and dislocation.
2. Comments on Robert Frost 1). Robert Frost is a beloved American poet, and many people associate him with nature and with the New England landscape, because, well, he liked to write about nature and the New England landscape
Ⅱ. Robert Lee Frost & “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”