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1、Robert FrostThe people along the sandAll turn and look one way.They turn their back on the land.They look at the sea all day.As long as it takes to passA ship keeps raising its hull;The wetter ground like glassReflects a standing gull.They cannot look out far.They cannot look in deep.But when was th
2、at ever a barTo any watch they keep?人们走上沙滩转身朝着一个方向。他们背对着陆地整日凝望海洋。当一只船从远处过来船身便不断升高；潮湿的沙滩像明镜映出一只静立的鸟。也许陆地变化更多；但无论真相在哪边,海水涌上岸来，人们凝望着海洋。他们望不太深。他们望不太远。但有什么能够遮挡他们凝望的目光？不深也不远Robert Frost was a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, teacher and lecturer wrote many popular and oft-quoted poems inclu
3、ding “After Apple-Picking”, “The Road Not Taken”, “Home Burial” and “Mending Wall”.Robert Frost(1874-1963) : born in San Francisco,of New England family. When he was just ten, his family returned to New England farm country, where his mother set up a small village school. Frost, with his sister, att
4、ended his mothers class. Later in high school, he developed a particular love for the Latin classics. Although his grandfather sent him to Dartmouth College, he found little interest there and soon left, after a one-year attendance, to assist his mother in her school. In 1985 he married his high sch
5、ool sweetheart, Elinor, and in 1897 he began his two-year course at Harvard. In 1912 he moved to England, there he published his first two books of poems, A Boys Will (1913), and North of Boston (1914).While writing on the rural landscape, vernacular, culture and people of New England in his traditi
6、onal verse style, his poems also transcend the boundaries of time and place with metaphysical significance and modern exploration of human nature. Though he often conveyed his message by implication, millions of readers have found comfort and profound meaning in his poetry and he has influenced nume
7、rous other authors, poets, musicians, and playwrights into the 21st Century. This poem describes the “people” who “look at the sea,” and the central images here are “people,” “land,” “sea,” and “watch.” The first stanza describes the people standing along the sand and looking at the sea. The second
8、leads the view from into the sea and concentrates upon what is seen by them, the ship. Why do “they turn their back on the land” and all “look at the sea”? Are they looking for the “ship”? The clue to the answer lies in line 10 of the third stanza: they are looking for truth. The final stanza conclu
9、des with the poets commentary on those peoples “watch.” This style of concluding a poem is one of Frosts distinctive writing characteristics This little poem is well structured through the repetition of “look.” Frosts images and symbols here are quite conventional. In fact everything seems to be sim
10、ple. However, this poem means something more than meets the eye, its just deceptively simple. Why do the people look to the sea for truth? Is there no truth to be found on the land? What would the sea offer us?Here there exists a conflict, between mans limitless inquiring eagerness and their limited
11、 capacity. The land gives us our bearings and their limited capacity.The land gives us our bearings and represents the known, but the sea is limitless and mysterious to the eye and represents the unknown, exciting the imagination. We scrutinize the unknown, and little by little extract more meaning
12、from it, but our progress toward the great, final answers is small (“they can not look far”) because their subtleties are too great (“they can not look in deep”). Nevertheless, the human race keeps the watch and continues to scrutinize the unknown, and there is no hope that we shall know more and more about our destiny. The rhetorical question at the end of the poem serves a double purpose: it throws light on the theme and slightly lifts the tone which is by far restrained and slightly neutral.
