Briefly discuss the features of Robert Frost's poem.
【正确答案】：A regional poet whose subject matters much focus on the landscape and people in New England and wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life.
B. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, he did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form. He learned from the tradition. the familiar conventions of nature poetry and of classical pastoral poetry and made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression. poem so conceived becomes a symbol or metaphor.
C. Images and metaphors are drawn from the country life and the pastoral landscape that can be easily understood. Mowing, scything, winds rustling in the grass, birds singing. ponds, roads, the cycle of the seasons and the alternation of night and day are all he describes.
D. His poems are about country life but profound ideas are delivered under the disguise the simple form. They are simple in the way that they are short and direct, and have simple diction. He is th his love of life and his belief in a serenity that only came from working.
E. By using the simple spoken language and conventional rhythms, he achieved grace in traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm. In verse form he was assorted.
