美国人物志:罗伯特·弗罗斯特 （二）（6/9)

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罗伯特·弗罗斯特是20世纪最受欢迎的美国诗人。他曾赢得4次普利策奖和许多其他的奖励及荣誉，被称之为美国文学中的桂冠诗人。
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Robert Frost
North of Boston
"Birches"
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Frost's later poetry shows little change or development from his earlier writing. It confirms what he had established in such early books as North of Boston. For example, a poem called "Birches," written in 1916 begins:
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay
As ice storms do.
And it ends:
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.