By juxtaposing two of Robert Frost's poems—"The Road Not Taken"and"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"and using stylistic analysis method,this essay tries to make a comparative study on the ...By juxtaposing two of Robert Frost's poems—"The Road Not Taken"and"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"and using stylistic analysis method,this essay tries to make a comparative study on the poems from the perspective of intertextuality,so as to find out a trajectory of Robert Frost's meditations on life and the consistency and connectivity in the crafts and style of his poems,and thus acquire a deeper and multi-angle interpretation on the poems.展开更多
Robert Frost is generally considered as a lyrical poet,whose poetry often gives the reader pleasant feeling.Yet,his poems have frightening quality,which can be perceived through the appaling world and seen in the grea...Robert Frost is generally considered as a lyrical poet,whose poetry often gives the reader pleasant feeling.Yet,his poems have frightening quality,which can be perceived through the appaling world and seen in the great number of abnormal people described in his poems.This paper aims at offering a detailed analysis of 3 typical instances of such poems to illustrate that the frightening quality,in fact,reflects a kind of modern experience.展开更多
Although a man stricken numerous times by pains and sufferings, Robert Frost had made the most excellent works in his lifetime. By carrying out a retrospection to Frost's rough life experiences and his times in li...Although a man stricken numerous times by pains and sufferings, Robert Frost had made the most excellent works in his lifetime. By carrying out a retrospection to Frost's rough life experiences and his times in light of their inseparable connection to and influence on his writing and analyzing the melancholy color presented in the main themes of "time"、"barrier"and "alienation and loneliness"which are concrete embodiments supporting the main element"melancholy", this thesis argues that Frost influenced his readers by inputting the element of melancholy into minds invisibly. With all the above efforts, the author of this thesis attempts to show a different side of Frost in a more specific and systematical way, and hopes it can help Frost readers understand him and read his poetry from a new angle.展开更多
Rober Frost, as one of American 20^(th) century leading poets, demostrates his paradoxical and contradictory views in his poetry——love and complaint. The paper proves that the lover's quarrel is an important the...Rober Frost, as one of American 20^(th) century leading poets, demostrates his paradoxical and contradictory views in his poetry——love and complaint. The paper proves that the lover's quarrel is an important theme in his peotry by analyzing Robert's love and quarrel with the world from three aspects in respect to his personal experience and social background in his age.展开更多
Robert Frost is one of the famous poets of the 20th century American literature who won the Pulitzer Prize for four times. The reason for his popularity is partially because he employs traditional verse form and iambi...Robert Frost is one of the famous poets of the 20th century American literature who won the Pulitzer Prize for four times. The reason for his popularity is partially because he employs traditional verse form and iambic pentameter pattern in poem writing, but the most important reason for the reputation of his poems lies in the thematic concern of something universal, such as death and life, love and hate, war and peace, the good and the evil, the wisdom of human life and etc. . A brief analysis will be given in the following text about the wisdoms of human life embodied in Robert Frost's poems from three aspects: 1. Relaxation and responsibility of man. 2. The decisions in life.展开更多
The greatest characteristic of Robert Frost's poetry is that complex and delicate subjects are embodied in narrative description which seems rather simple. Frost achieves a distinctive grace by combining unique st...The greatest characteristic of Robert Frost's poetry is that complex and delicate subjects are embodied in narrative description which seems rather simple. Frost achieves a distinctive grace by combining unique structure and profound meaning together. This thesis explores Robert Frost's"A Servant to Servants"from the point of view on narratology finds out the careful arrangement and unique perspective. The present study concludes that while this narrative poem appears to have a simple organization and to limit itself to colloquial language, at a deeper level it has careful arrangement and expresses profound meaning. While enjoying the poem's vivid narrate, the reader also comes to realize the truth that"A Servant to Servants".展开更多
The Road Not Taken is one of the best known poems by Robert Frost.Simple and beautiful in form,it is profound in meaning.It reflects the tragedy of human beings as a whole and also the personal tragedy of the poet him...The Road Not Taken is one of the best known poems by Robert Frost.Simple and beautiful in form,it is profound in meaning.It reflects the tragedy of human beings as a whole and also the personal tragedy of the poet himself,and as a consequence,it is tinted with an exotic sense of tragic beauty.展开更多
Most studies of Robert Frost usually focus on his great arts in describing the rural and folksy things, and this thesis is to have a tentative reading of Robert Frost from the feminism perspective. It will shed light ...Most studies of Robert Frost usually focus on his great arts in describing the rural and folksy things, and this thesis is to have a tentative reading of Robert Frost from the feminism perspective. It will shed light on the poet's view towards woman by analyzing woman characters in his dialogic poems and his subtle use of pronouns and other semantic strategies.展开更多
As one of the most popular American poets in the twentieth century, Robert Frost demonstrated myriads of universally acknowledged works to the world. This paper aims to analyze the plant imagery appearing in his poems...As one of the most popular American poets in the twentieth century, Robert Frost demonstrated myriads of universally acknowledged works to the world. This paper aims to analyze the plant imagery appearing in his poems from the perspective of archetypal theory. This study, on the basis of analyzing poetic texts, utilizes content analysis to classify plant images into four types and work out relevant statistics. After data analysis based on thematology and archetypal theory, the study finds that plant images in his poems demonstrate the relationship between human beings and nature, psychological conflicts of the poet, death and dismay, expectation for life and rebirth.展开更多
A dedicated farm-hand and four-time Pulitzer winner,Robert Frost is considered to be one of the mpst successful poets of the twentieth America.This thesis is intended to interprit his poetry in the light of Taoism.It ...A dedicated farm-hand and four-time Pulitzer winner,Robert Frost is considered to be one of the mpst successful poets of the twentieth America.This thesis is intended to interprit his poetry in the light of Taoism.It is hoped that the new approach will yield a better understanding of Frosr's aesthetic values.展开更多
According to Lakoff et al, metaphor is the main mechanism through which we comprehend abstract concepts and perform abstract reasoning. As a great poet, Robert Frost realized the cognitive functions of metaphors and u...According to Lakoff et al, metaphor is the main mechanism through which we comprehend abstract concepts and perform abstract reasoning. As a great poet, Robert Frost realized the cognitive functions of metaphors and used them frequently and skillfully in his poetry. By doing so, he was able to convey abstract and philosophical reflections through simple language and enrich the theme of his poetry. This thesis conducts a survey of the definitions of metaphors and makes an analysis of the metaphors employed by Frost in his poetry, trying to answer two questions: 1) How does the use of metaphor help to convey the poet's abstract and profound philosophical reflections? 2) How does the use of metaphor help to enrich the themes of Frost's poetry?展开更多
Robert Frost's most,especially early wrtitings are about nature things,and describe and comment on a scene or event closely related to the countryside of New England.Most of them carry the beauty of nature and the...Robert Frost's most,especially early wrtitings are about nature things,and describe and comment on a scene or event closely related to the countryside of New England.Most of them carry the beauty of nature and the importance of individual.Gradually,certain elements influence him and his poetry became more and more gloomy and of dark picture of the world,which carries the elements of Modernistic writing.This thesis is attempts to dig deep into the process that his general development from Romaticism to Modernism and how it developed.This thesis gives three main reasons:the First World War,the key figures among Modernists and personal tragedies.However,we can not see superficially the difference clearly in his later poems.In a word,the environment,the people around and personal tragedy can change a person and,if a poet,his poetry too.展开更多
Reader-Response Criticism is one of the schools of western literary criticism.The scholars of the school hold the view that literature is a performative art and each reading is a performance,analogous to playing/singi...Reader-Response Criticism is one of the schools of western literary criticism.The scholars of the school hold the view that literature is a performative art and each reading is a performance,analogous to playing/singing a musical work,enacting a drama,etc.Literature exists only when it is read. They maintain that reading is a transction between the reader and the text,meaning is as dependent upon the reader as it is dependent upon the text.So there is no universal and absolute interpretation of a poem;rather,there can be several probable interpretations.According to their view-point,a literary text possesses no fixed and final meaning and value.Literary meaning and value are"transactional","dialogic",created by the interaction of the reader and the text.In this paper,the writer,with his interpretation of the poem The Road Not Taken by famous American poet Robert Frost,tries to demonstrate that Reader-Response Criticism,in a sense,is reasonable in proving that the reality of the text lies between the reader and the text and in the transaction,it is the readers who bring their world of experience to activate the text.展开更多
In this paper, Robert Frost's poetry is the main object of study. The thesis studies metaphor using the CIT and CMT. The thesis is to offer a new perspective for Frost's poetry interpretation and to prove that...In this paper, Robert Frost's poetry is the main object of study. The thesis studies metaphor using the CIT and CMT. The thesis is to offer a new perspective for Frost's poetry interpretation and to prove that the cognitive mechanism of CMT and CIT can work as effective tools in the interpretation of his poems. This study analyzes The Pasture, After Apple-Picking, Fire and Ice, Come in. And the following conclusions are drawn: first and foremost, in Frost's poems, nature is an essential image. Frost uses many images. Second, metaphor in Frost's poems comes from the basic conceptual metaphor in our daily life. Metaphor plays a very important role in understanding the poem. Metaphor used in his poems is from his physical and mental feelings.展开更多
Poetry reading is a process of constantly discovering process.Robert Frost is the most popular 20th century American poet.His poetry has a unique artistic charm.Through the analysis of his poem"Mending Wall"...Poetry reading is a process of constantly discovering process.Robert Frost is the most popular 20th century American poet.His poetry has a unique artistic charm.Through the analysis of his poem"Mending Wall",this article tries to interpret Robert Frost's phonology Metrical the distinct characteristics and style in his poetry.展开更多
In Into My Own and My Dream Pang written by Robert Frost,there are two sides in the subject that are at odds with each other:the one that wants to retreat from the worldly matters and the other that calls for others’...In Into My Own and My Dream Pang written by Robert Frost,there are two sides in the subject that are at odds with each other:the one that wants to retreat from the worldly matters and the other that calls for others’communication with him.By adopting the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan,this paper finds that the protagonist’s implicit need for the recognition from others plays a defining role in the construction of his new identity as a hermit.展开更多
文摘By juxtaposing two of Robert Frost's poems—"The Road Not Taken"and"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"and using stylistic analysis method,this essay tries to make a comparative study on the poems from the perspective of intertextuality,so as to find out a trajectory of Robert Frost's meditations on life and the consistency and connectivity in the crafts and style of his poems,and thus acquire a deeper and multi-angle interpretation on the poems.
文摘Robert Frost is generally considered as a lyrical poet,whose poetry often gives the reader pleasant feeling.Yet,his poems have frightening quality,which can be perceived through the appaling world and seen in the great number of abnormal people described in his poems.This paper aims at offering a detailed analysis of 3 typical instances of such poems to illustrate that the frightening quality,in fact,reflects a kind of modern experience.
文摘Although a man stricken numerous times by pains and sufferings, Robert Frost had made the most excellent works in his lifetime. By carrying out a retrospection to Frost's rough life experiences and his times in light of their inseparable connection to and influence on his writing and analyzing the melancholy color presented in the main themes of "time"、"barrier"and "alienation and loneliness"which are concrete embodiments supporting the main element"melancholy", this thesis argues that Frost influenced his readers by inputting the element of melancholy into minds invisibly. With all the above efforts, the author of this thesis attempts to show a different side of Frost in a more specific and systematical way, and hopes it can help Frost readers understand him and read his poetry from a new angle.
文摘Rober Frost, as one of American 20^(th) century leading poets, demostrates his paradoxical and contradictory views in his poetry——love and complaint. The paper proves that the lover's quarrel is an important theme in his peotry by analyzing Robert's love and quarrel with the world from three aspects in respect to his personal experience and social background in his age.
文摘Robert Frost is one of the famous poets of the 20th century American literature who won the Pulitzer Prize for four times. The reason for his popularity is partially because he employs traditional verse form and iambic pentameter pattern in poem writing, but the most important reason for the reputation of his poems lies in the thematic concern of something universal, such as death and life, love and hate, war and peace, the good and the evil, the wisdom of human life and etc. . A brief analysis will be given in the following text about the wisdoms of human life embodied in Robert Frost's poems from three aspects: 1. Relaxation and responsibility of man. 2. The decisions in life.
文摘The greatest characteristic of Robert Frost's poetry is that complex and delicate subjects are embodied in narrative description which seems rather simple. Frost achieves a distinctive grace by combining unique structure and profound meaning together. This thesis explores Robert Frost's"A Servant to Servants"from the point of view on narratology finds out the careful arrangement and unique perspective. The present study concludes that while this narrative poem appears to have a simple organization and to limit itself to colloquial language, at a deeper level it has careful arrangement and expresses profound meaning. While enjoying the poem's vivid narrate, the reader also comes to realize the truth that"A Servant to Servants".
文摘The Road Not Taken is one of the best known poems by Robert Frost.Simple and beautiful in form,it is profound in meaning.It reflects the tragedy of human beings as a whole and also the personal tragedy of the poet himself,and as a consequence,it is tinted with an exotic sense of tragic beauty.
文摘Most studies of Robert Frost usually focus on his great arts in describing the rural and folksy things, and this thesis is to have a tentative reading of Robert Frost from the feminism perspective. It will shed light on the poet's view towards woman by analyzing woman characters in his dialogic poems and his subtle use of pronouns and other semantic strategies.
文摘As one of the most popular American poets in the twentieth century, Robert Frost demonstrated myriads of universally acknowledged works to the world. This paper aims to analyze the plant imagery appearing in his poems from the perspective of archetypal theory. This study, on the basis of analyzing poetic texts, utilizes content analysis to classify plant images into four types and work out relevant statistics. After data analysis based on thematology and archetypal theory, the study finds that plant images in his poems demonstrate the relationship between human beings and nature, psychological conflicts of the poet, death and dismay, expectation for life and rebirth.
文摘A dedicated farm-hand and four-time Pulitzer winner,Robert Frost is considered to be one of the mpst successful poets of the twentieth America.This thesis is intended to interprit his poetry in the light of Taoism.It is hoped that the new approach will yield a better understanding of Frosr's aesthetic values.
文摘According to Lakoff et al, metaphor is the main mechanism through which we comprehend abstract concepts and perform abstract reasoning. As a great poet, Robert Frost realized the cognitive functions of metaphors and used them frequently and skillfully in his poetry. By doing so, he was able to convey abstract and philosophical reflections through simple language and enrich the theme of his poetry. This thesis conducts a survey of the definitions of metaphors and makes an analysis of the metaphors employed by Frost in his poetry, trying to answer two questions: 1) How does the use of metaphor help to convey the poet's abstract and profound philosophical reflections? 2) How does the use of metaphor help to enrich the themes of Frost's poetry?
文摘Robert Frost's most,especially early wrtitings are about nature things,and describe and comment on a scene or event closely related to the countryside of New England.Most of them carry the beauty of nature and the importance of individual.Gradually,certain elements influence him and his poetry became more and more gloomy and of dark picture of the world,which carries the elements of Modernistic writing.This thesis is attempts to dig deep into the process that his general development from Romaticism to Modernism and how it developed.This thesis gives three main reasons:the First World War,the key figures among Modernists and personal tragedies.However,we can not see superficially the difference clearly in his later poems.In a word,the environment,the people around and personal tragedy can change a person and,if a poet,his poetry too.
文摘Reader-Response Criticism is one of the schools of western literary criticism.The scholars of the school hold the view that literature is a performative art and each reading is a performance,analogous to playing/singing a musical work,enacting a drama,etc.Literature exists only when it is read. They maintain that reading is a transction between the reader and the text,meaning is as dependent upon the reader as it is dependent upon the text.So there is no universal and absolute interpretation of a poem;rather,there can be several probable interpretations.According to their view-point,a literary text possesses no fixed and final meaning and value.Literary meaning and value are"transactional","dialogic",created by the interaction of the reader and the text.In this paper,the writer,with his interpretation of the poem The Road Not Taken by famous American poet Robert Frost,tries to demonstrate that Reader-Response Criticism,in a sense,is reasonable in proving that the reality of the text lies between the reader and the text and in the transaction,it is the readers who bring their world of experience to activate the text.
文摘In this paper, Robert Frost's poetry is the main object of study. The thesis studies metaphor using the CIT and CMT. The thesis is to offer a new perspective for Frost's poetry interpretation and to prove that the cognitive mechanism of CMT and CIT can work as effective tools in the interpretation of his poems. This study analyzes The Pasture, After Apple-Picking, Fire and Ice, Come in. And the following conclusions are drawn: first and foremost, in Frost's poems, nature is an essential image. Frost uses many images. Second, metaphor in Frost's poems comes from the basic conceptual metaphor in our daily life. Metaphor plays a very important role in understanding the poem. Metaphor used in his poems is from his physical and mental feelings.
文摘Poetry reading is a process of constantly discovering process.Robert Frost is the most popular 20th century American poet.His poetry has a unique artistic charm.Through the analysis of his poem"Mending Wall",this article tries to interpret Robert Frost's phonology Metrical the distinct characteristics and style in his poetry.
文摘In Into My Own and My Dream Pang written by Robert Frost,there are two sides in the subject that are at odds with each other:the one that wants to retreat from the worldly matters and the other that calls for others’communication with him.By adopting the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan,this paper finds that the protagonist’s implicit need for the recognition from others plays a defining role in the construction of his new identity as a hermit.
