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Robert Frost The Modern Period in American Literature Thank you! * * * * * * * Modernism During the first decade of the 20th century, modernism became an international tendency. The essence of modernism was a break with the past and fostered self fulfillment. Modernism displayed its momentum first in the movement of imagism（意象主义）. Contents 1)His life 2)His works 3)Features of his poems 4)Theme of poems 5)The road not taken His Life Born in San Francisco in 1874 and died in Boston in1963 At 11 years old, his father died and his mother took him to Massachusetts Attended high school in Mass, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. In 1895, he got married. In order to support the family, he did odd jobs: teaching school and working in a mill and as a newspaper reporter From 1897 to 1899,attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and supplemented his income by teaching at Derrys Pinkerton Academy. The Frost farm, where the family lived from 1900-1911. Nature and rural surroundings became for Frost a source for insights into deeper design of life. He once said: Literature begins with geography. His Works 1.Collection of poems: A Boy’s Will（1913） North of Boston（1914） New Hamphshire（1923） Collected Poems（1930） A Further Range（1936） A Witness Tree（1942） 2.Poems: Birches After Apple-Picking Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Road Not Taken Frosts manuscript of a poem from A Boys Will Frost in Franconia, N.H., 1915 His Achievements (1)4 Pulitzer Prizes(普利策奖 ) 1924— Frost received Pulitzer Prize for New Hampshire. 1931— The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Collected Poems and also received the Russell Loines Poetry Prize. 1937— The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to A Further Range. 1943— Frost was awarded his fourth Pulitzer for A Witness Tree. (2)