Mending Wall Robert Frost
Mending wall Robert frost
Throughout the history of man, separation has been a part to their lives in one fashion or another. Man has faced separation from their god, from their community, from their loved ones and from their dreams and desires. Recognizing this continuing condition, writers throughout time have written about such separation that people have experienced. In fact, separation seems to be the central theme in many literary pieces of work.
Robert Frost gave us the poem, “Mending Wall” which explores separation of one neighbor from another. Additionally, Frost wrote, “Home Burial” which demonstrates the separation experienced by a couple after the loss of their child. John Cheever’s short story “The Swimmer” shares the journey of Neddy whose alcoholism has separated himself from time, his family, friends, money and health. Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s, “A Raisin in the Sun” faces constant separation from his dreams and a separation of ideals from his family. W.E.B. Dubois shares with the reader a separation of an entire people from their equality thought to have been given to them forty years prior.
Though separation may not be the primary message of the writers above, it certainly reveals itself in a variety of ways. The myriad of ways separation is used in the poems and stories previously mentioned are as vast as the causes of the gaps themselves.
The speaker in Frost’s, “Mending Wall” expresses through thoughts primarily the necessity for a wall between himself and his neighbor. Every year the wall is damaged by weather and hunters as the speaker indicates, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall (Frost, 51).” Additionally, the speaker asks his neighbor of what purpose is there is such a wall as what is grown on his land is completely different from what grows on his neighbors land, “There where it is we do not need the wall / He is all pine and I am apple orchard / My apple trees will never get across / And eat the cones
Throughout the history of man, separation has been a part to their lives in one fashion or another. Man has faced separation from their god, from their community, from their loved ones and from their dreams and desires. Recognizing this continuing condition, writers throughout time have written about such separation that people have experienced. In fact, separation seems to be the central theme in many literary pieces of work.
Robert Frost gave us the poem, “Mending Wall” which explores separation of one neighbor from another. Additionally, Frost wrote, “Home Burial” which demonstrates the separation experienced by a couple after the loss of their child. John Cheever’s short story “The Swimmer” shares the journey of Neddy whose alcoholism has separated himself from time, his family, friends, money and health. Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s, “A Raisin in the Sun” faces constant separation from his dreams and a separation of ideals from his family. W.E.B. Dubois shares with the reader a separation of an entire people from their equality thought to have been given to them forty years prior.
Though separation may not be the primary message of the writers above, it certainly reveals itself in a variety of ways. The myriad of ways separation is used in the poems and stories previously mentioned are as vast as the causes of the gaps themselves.
The speaker in Frost’s, “Mending Wall” expresses through thoughts primarily the necessity for a wall between himself and his neighbor. Every year the wall is damaged by weather and hunters as the speaker indicates, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall (Frost, 51).” Additionally, the speaker asks his neighbor of what purpose is there is such a wall as what is grown on his land is completely different from what grows on his neighbors land, “There where it is we do not need the wall / He is all pine and I am apple orchard / My apple trees will never get across / And eat the cones