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 While Frost deems the neighbors’ outdated insistance of keeping the wall unreasonable, the speaker’s attitude was somehow ambiguous for there exists a border in his mind.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.”
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.”