【美国人物志】罗伯特·弗罗斯特 （二）（9/9)

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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
Pulitzer Prize
Congress
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Frost received almost every honor a writer could receive. He won the Pulitzer Prize for literature four times. In 1960, Congress voted Frost a gold medal for what he had given to the culture of the United States.
In the last years of his life, Frost was no longer producing great poetry, but he represented the value of poetry in human life. He often taught, and he gave talks. Usually he would be asked to read his best known poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:"
Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though,
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost died in 1963. He had lived for almost 100 years, and had covered many miles before he slept, many miles before he slept.