“I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song.”

American poet

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is known for his realistic portrayals of rural life and his mastery of American colloquial speech, especially in poems set in New England in the early 20th century. In those settings, Frost explored questions that were larger than the landscape itself, using ordinary rural scenes to look at social and philosophical concerns. His work stays closely tied to place and speech, but it often reaches beyond them to reflect on human experience.