Robert Frost Figurative Language
Robert Frost utilizes exceptional imagery and figurative to highlight the physical wall between the neighbor and him, satirizing the critical emotional estrangement and boundary between neighbors. While Frost deems the neighbors’ outdated insistance of keeping the wall unreasonable, the speaker’s attitude was somehow ambiguous for there exists a border in his mind. The small conflicts and emotional changes are realistically amplied by the figurative language and imagery.
To begin with, the great imgery contributes to the description of the wall and the New England countryside landscape in the first several lines. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall/That send the frozen-ground-swell under it,/And spill the upper boulders in the sun.”
The author tries to describe the nature who destroys the wall, by granting nature the power of melting the wall. The imagery and figurative language in the first three lines underlie the author’s tendency not to have the wall. However, ironically, the speaker and the neighbor both ment the wall in the past betwene them. Hunters somewhat destroy the wall, “to have the rabbit out of hiding/to please the yelping dogs.” After the damage, “I[the speaker] have come after them and made repair. The imagery is effective in the twenty-fourth line, when the author points that “he is all pine and I am apple orchard.” This means that in the garden of the speaker grows only apple orchard, the neighbor only pine. The plants cannot violate interests of theirs, unlink “cows.” The description of the pine and orchard was strong reason of pushing over the wall. Still, the neighbor reacts, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
While the imagery most grants the depiction of the conditions and the basic setup in this poem, the figurative language leaves the reader into deep contemplation. The most notable figurative language is repetition. The two groups of repition highlights the discrepancy of the idea of the neighbor, keeping the wall, and that of the speaker, distasting the wall. “Good fences amek good neighbors,” appearing twice (27th line and 45th line). The neighbor observe his father’s out-dated caution, depending on the tradition and the past to guide his life. On the contrary, “something there is that does love a wall,” appearing in the first and twenty-third line, chanllenging the old-fashioned proverb. From his perspective, the wall is really unnecessay because it is a symbol of autiquity and segragation. For example, as a simile in the poem says, “in each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.” However, the discrepancy between the two persons’ thoughts got entangled with the conflicting attitude of the speaker. On the one hand, he is challenging the old tradition. On the other hand, as I said, he repaired the wall himself. It’s indicated that everyone has the tendency to protect privacy, yet the isolation is not an effective way of communication. Through the speaker’s emotional transformation, he calls deep thinking of openness.
In conclusion, the imagery and figurative language, which get involved with the physical and emotional conflicts of the persons in this short poem, reveals the importance of community. In the modern world, as people tend to be isolated in their own group, the relationship between neighbor breaks to a freezing point. Whereas the speaker pursues challenges the old-school saying , he wants to people to break up the obstacles and coldness between neighbors and kind people around them.
To begin with, the great imgery contributes to the description of the wall and the New England countryside landscape in the first several lines. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall/That send the frozen-ground-swell under it,/And spill the upper boulders in the sun.”
The author tries to describe the nature who destroys the wall, by granting nature the power of melting the wall. The imagery and figurative language in the first three lines underlie the author’s tendency not to have the wall. However, ironically, the speaker and the neighbor both ment the wall in the past betwene them. Hunters somewhat destroy the wall, “to have the rabbit out of hiding/to please the yelping dogs.” After the damage, “I[the speaker] have come after them and made repair. The imagery is effective in the twenty-fourth line, when the author points that “he is all pine and I am apple orchard.” This means that in the garden of the speaker grows only apple orchard, the neighbor only pine. The plants cannot violate interests of theirs, unlink “cows.” The description of the pine and orchard was strong reason of pushing over the wall. Still, the neighbor reacts, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
While the imagery most grants the depiction of the conditions and the basic setup in this poem, the figurative language leaves the reader into deep contemplation. The most notable figurative language is repetition. The two groups of repition highlights the discrepancy of the idea of the neighbor, keeping the wall, and that of the speaker, distasting the wall. “Good fences amek good neighbors,” appearing twice (27th line and 45th line). The neighbor observe his father’s out-dated caution, depending on the tradition and the past to guide his life. On the contrary, “something there is that does love a wall,” appearing in the first and twenty-third line, chanllenging the old-fashioned proverb. From his perspective, the wall is really unnecessay because it is a symbol of autiquity and segragation. For example, as a simile in the poem says, “in each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.” However, the discrepancy between the two persons’ thoughts got entangled with the conflicting attitude of the speaker. On the one hand, he is challenging the old tradition. On the other hand, as I said, he repaired the wall himself. It’s indicated that everyone has the tendency to protect privacy, yet the isolation is not an effective way of communication. Through the speaker’s emotional transformation, he calls deep thinking of openness.
In conclusion, the imagery and figurative language, which get involved with the physical and emotional conflicts of the persons in this short poem, reveals the importance of community. In the modern world, as people tend to be isolated in their own group, the relationship between neighbor breaks to a freezing point. Whereas the speaker pursues challenges the old-school saying , he wants to people to break up the obstacles and coldness between neighbors and kind people around them.