(共11张PPT)
Unit 4 Exploring poetry
Integrated Skills (I)
Into the life and works of
Robert Frost
Name : _____________________________________
Born: _____________________________________
Died: _____________________________________
Occupation: _____________________________________
Graduated: _____________________________________
Notable works: _____________________________________
Notable awards: _____________________________________
Robert Frost
March 26, 1874 San Francisco
January 29, 1963 Boston
Poet, playwright
Harvard University
“The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by the wood on a snowy evening”
4 Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
worked seriously on a farm
1901-1911
recited his poem in the inauguration of President John Kennedy
1961
use the blank verse (无韵诗)
use symbols from everyday life
use contraries and contradictions
use plain language but have deep meaning beneath a
simple exterior
poems set in nature
Symbols from everyday life
Stopping by the wood on a snowy evening
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.
“sleep” symbolizes _____________.
“miles to go” symbolizes ___________ that is full of _____________________.
death
work and responsibility
life
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Contraries and contradictions
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Fire and Ice
Fire: warmth, emotions, desire
Ice: coldness, dryness, hatred
Both are two contrary extremes and these extremes lead towards destruction.
Plain language but deep meaning beneath
Mending the Wall
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says,
‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
“Good fences make good neighbors”
Tradition
Modernity
Aged
Young
neighbours
...
Won 4 Pulitzer Prizes :
1924 for “New Hampshire”
1931 for “The Collected Poems”
1937 for “A Further Range”
1943 for “A Witness Tree”