Symbolism In Robert Frost's Mending Wall
Frost and the mending wall
Robert Frost is one of America’s most adored poets, and “Mending Wall is one of his most widely held poems. The poem tells the tale of a rock wall which sits between two properties in a countryside. The poem makes us take a look at how we use our walls and boundaries, and why we use them the way we do. There is a psychological approach to Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” literature style. The wall becomes the shining star in this poem, it serves as a symbol that unites the speaker and his neighbor, and this same wall also serves as a symbol that separates the two. “Good fences make good neighbors” (Frost, 13). On the other side of the poem, the speaker and his neighbor made conscious efforts to keep themselves separated and this confirms the ironic nature of the wall,
The imagery of the poem deserves its own focused attention. Central to the poem is the wall, which is both a physical barrier but also a metaphor for personal barriers. (Little, Michael R., and Harold Bloom. 2010) There is a clear symbolism throughout the lines, the word “something” in the first line of the poem could be just about anything under the sun. And by using the word “something” instead of “someone” suggests that humans are not …show more content…
And as a result of this natural action the wall has holes big enough for the two people to pass through comfortably. Unfortunately the action of some hunters ended up damaging the wall. The works of the hunters goes back to confirm the speaker’s earlier assumption that something is destroying the wall. However, Frost’s statement, “I have come after them” gives us the impression that it was a common occurrence. He had to clean up after the hunters and rebuild parts of the wall that they destroy, because they don’t pick up after themselves. The hunters had to tear down the wall to find the little bunnies hiding inside the wall for the dogs in order to please their bunny-loving
Robert Frost is one of America’s most adored poets, and “Mending Wall is one of his most widely held poems. The poem tells the tale of a rock wall which sits between two properties in a countryside. The poem makes us take a look at how we use our walls and boundaries, and why we use them the way we do. There is a psychological approach to Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” literature style. The wall becomes the shining star in this poem, it serves as a symbol that unites the speaker and his neighbor, and this same wall also serves as a symbol that separates the two. “Good fences make good neighbors” (Frost, 13). On the other side of the poem, the speaker and his neighbor made conscious efforts to keep themselves separated and this confirms the ironic nature of the wall,
The imagery of the poem deserves its own focused attention. Central to the poem is the wall, which is both a physical barrier but also a metaphor for personal barriers. (Little, Michael R., and Harold Bloom. 2010) There is a clear symbolism throughout the lines, the word “something” in the first line of the poem could be just about anything under the sun. And by using the word “something” instead of “someone” suggests that humans are not …show more content…
And as a result of this natural action the wall has holes big enough for the two people to pass through comfortably. Unfortunately the action of some hunters ended up damaging the wall. The works of the hunters goes back to confirm the speaker’s earlier assumption that something is destroying the wall. However, Frost’s statement, “I have come after them” gives us the impression that it was a common occurrence. He had to clean up after the hunters and rebuild parts of the wall that they destroy, because they don’t pick up after themselves. The hunters had to tear down the wall to find the little bunnies hiding inside the wall for the dogs in order to please their bunny-loving