Response To Robert Frost's Mending Wall

In the poem called “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, I uncontrollably connect the poem to our current United States 2016 presidential election, because Donald Trump propose to build a wall between Mexico and the United States. Basically, I directly connect the poem with its keywords, which makes me fail to see the overall idea of its message. As I progress, I continue to seek the literal meaning of each word, such as to whom is the poet referring to when he says, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” (Line 1). At the beginning, it was difficult for me to see the overall image of the poem as I read it line-by-line, because my previous thoughts constantly changes with every new line. In other word, I started with a question in my mind, such as what is this poem about? During my zero draft reading, I find myself forming questions with curiosity. This creates a confusion as I read through each line, because my mind generally creates bias. For example, initially, I thought the narrator is the one who builds the wall as he says, “I have come after them and made repair” (line 6). However, I soon learned that his neighbor is the one who actually built the wall. Then, my next question is why did the neighbor build the wall, and does it bother him that his neighbor built the wall? Moreover, I noticed that as I continue to read, my mind would
He uses the wall to show how people have certain boundaries, and, sarcastically, he talks about own building a real wall makes no difference when he says, “Where there are cows? But here there are no cows” (line 36). The neighbor responses with “Good fences make good neighbor”, which strongly resonates with irony (line 32). After the first readings, my mind switches between reading the poem literally to trying to distinguish the abstract meaning of the