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ROBERT FROST
by
Jenny Yang and Cherish Qin
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Ⅰ.A Brief Introduction about his life
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Ⅱ.A Simple Analysis of His Writing
About His Life
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Robert Lee Frost (March 26,
1874 – January 29, 1963)
an American poet.
honored for receiving four
Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
one of America's rare "public
literary figures, almost an
artistic institution."
awarded the Congressional
Gold Medal in 1960 for his
poetical works
Family
•born in San Francisco, California
•father was a teacher and later an editor of
the San Francisco Evening Bulletin ,an
unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector
•when Frost was 11, his father died
oftuberculosis, leaving the family with just
eight dollars.
•the family moved across the country to
Lawrence, Massachusetts,
•mother was of Scottish descent,
His Experiences
•in 1892,Frost graduated from Lawrence High
School
• published his first poem in his high school's
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•on December 19, 1895,they were married at
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•Frost attended Harvard University from 1897 to
1899, but he left voluntarily due to illness.
•grandfather purchased a farmin Derry, New
Hampshire;---worked for nine years while writing
early in the mornings and producing many of the
poems that would later become famous.
•his farming proved unsuccessful
• from 1906 to 1911,returned to the field of
education as an English teacher at New
Hampshire's Pinkerton Academy
•in 1912 Frost sailed with his family to Great
Britain, settling first in Beaconsfield, a small town
outside London
•In England he made some important acquaintances,
including Edward Thomas (a member of the group known
as the Dymock Poets), T.E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound
•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.
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•in 1924, he won the first
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four Pulitzer Prizes for the
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•In 1960, he received the United States Congressional
Gold Medal
•Frost was 86 when he read his well-known poem "The
Gift Outright" at the inauguration
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of President John F.
Kennedy on January 20, the
1961.
He died in Boston two
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years later, on January 29, 1963,
life plagued with grief and loss
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In 1885 when Frost was 11, his father died
oftuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars.
Frost's mother died of cancer in 1900.
In 1920, Frost had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to
a 90%
mental hospital, where she died nine years later. Mental
illness apparently ran in Frost's family, as both he and his
mother suffered from depression, and his daughter Irma
was committed to
5%a mental hospital in 1947. Frost's wife,
Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.
six children: son Elliot (1896–1904, died of cholera); son
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Carol (1902–1940, committed suicide); ; daughter Marjorie
(1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after
childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just three
days after her birth in 1907). Only Lesley and Irma outlived
their father.
Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life,
developed breast cancer in 1937, and died of heart failure
in 1938.
Robert in JOhn Kennedy's
Inauguration Speech
THE GIFT OUTRIGHT
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The land was ours before we were the
land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred
years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia;
But we were England’s, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed
by,
Possessed by what we now no more
possessed.
Something we were withholding made us
weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would
become.
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全心的奉献
土地先属于我们，我们才属于土地。
她成为我们的土地历一百余年，
我们才成为她的人民。当时
她属于我们，在马萨诸塞，在佛吉尼亚，
但我们属于英国，仍是殖民之身，
我们拥有的，我们仍漠不关心，
我们关心的，我们已不再拥有。
我们保留的一些什么使自己贫弱，
直到我们发现，原来是我们自己，
保留着，不肯给自己生息之地，
立刻，在献身之中找到了生机。
赤裸裸地，我们全心将自己奉献，
（献身的事迹是多次的战迹）
献身于斯土，斯土正浑沦拓展，向西，
但迄未经人述说，朴实无华、未加渲染。
当时她如此，且预示她仍将如是。
余光中 译
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