American Criticisms On Themes Of Robert Frost’s Poetry Over One Hundred Years

Robert Frost is one of the greatest poets who has attracted much attention in the20 th Century,the United States.His poetries exhibit less characteristic of modernism,most of them are simple and rural,which hide complex themes and deep philosophy.From 1913,American poetry critics pay much attention to Robert Frost,especially focus on his themes of poetics.Discussing and evaluating the American reviews of poetic themes of Frost will provide a complete current research situation,help domestic critics find the inadequacy of current researching,and illustrate the solutions.The introduction part mainly introduced the perspective of the paper subject,discussed the criticisms on Frost’s poetry themes of both domestic and abroad,and the purpose,the methods and the significance of the study on Frost’s poetry themes.The first chapter introduced early criticisms on the poetry.From 1913 to 1925,American critics focused on poetry structure and expression,including positive,negative,and comprehensive comments.The second chapter focused on the criticisms on New England theme.Some critics regarded Frost as a “New England” poet because of the New England situation in his poetry;however,others didn’t regarded Frost as a real “New England” poet based on his language what he used in the poetries.The third chapter summarized the research situations of Nature poems.Critics concentrated on the relationships between human and nature,human itself,and nature and forever in order to illustrate the nature conception of Frost.The fourth chapter explained diversity themes.Critics focused on the early poetries of Frost,considering with the context,they explained the diversity themes in Frost’s works,including worker themes,poor theme,death theme and so on.The fifth chapter summaries the central point of American criticism on Frost.It includes the major poetry features and the representative images.The conclusion summarizes the characteristics and achievements of the criticisms on Robert Frost’s poetry themes of America over one hundred years.Introduced the weak parts of Chinese reviews.Therefore,Literature review of American criticisms on themes of Frost will provide significant lessons and referring value for domestic studies in Frost poetries.