ABSTRACT
Robert Frost was fresh from America. Frost picks out the two-ness of things, and he finds beauty in a precise balance between that duality and something larger or stronger. Understanding what Frost prizes is what a modern theory of personal identity adds to the old maxim, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Frost praises for all of poetry and art the special combination of the contained familiar and the boundless surprise that marks his own poetic themes and style. Traditional psychology offers us the terms “exogenic” and “endogenic”: responses that are caused from outside ourselves and responses that come from inside.
