“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”

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.