“The Trial by Existence”: Frost’s Early View on the Soul

作     者：CAI Pei-lin 

作者机构：Southwest UniversityChongqing400715China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第10卷第7期

页      面：629-632页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：Frost “The Trial by Existence” soul life 

摘      要：This essay explores Frost early philosophical view on the soul in“The Trial by Existence.This poem combines Plato’s The Myth of Er in Republic Book X with the story of the Incarnation in Milton’s Paradise Lost,manifesting that firstly,one’s soul symbolically shares the divine character;secondly,the destiny of one’s soul is chosen by oneself;thirdly,soul and body are inextricable,which means that the material world or the body is the trial of soul’s *** greatest merit of the soul is“plunging into matterand risking it in substantiation while maintains its completeness.