关键词: 谢默斯·希尼, 罗伯特·弗洛斯特, 诗歌, 影响

Abstract: American poet Robert Frost has influenced Irish poet Seamus Heaney from the very beginning. First, Frost encouraged Heaney to represent the common country life around him realistically with an easy but precise vernacular, and taught him to combine the dramatic with the ordinary. Second, Frost emphasizes the natural rhythm, which he called “the sound of sense,” which helps Heaney to understand the modernity of the seemingly simple poems that break the rules of the classical poetry. It also inspires Heaney to distinguish between the crafts of poetry and the techniques of poetry. Third, Heaney learned from Frost the complexity and ambiguity of styles and meanings and adapted in his poems more profoundly. To sort out the influence of Frost on Heaney in Heaney's discussion of Frost, we can see not only the shaping of Heaney by Frost, but also the re-shaping of Frost by Heaney.

Key words: Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, poetry, influence