Of course, the above summary does not do justice to the narrative richness of the poem, but what is essential,
Of course, the above summary does not do justice to the narrative richness of the poem, but what is essential,
Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work.…
Conveying to the reader his themes allows the responder to create a meaning and purpose for his poem. In Mending Wall, the composer uses imagery to convey his theme of the barrier in the relationship between humans. In the poem, the ‘wall’ is a symbolic representation of the barriers that separate friendship between the neighbours. The repetition of the word ‘wall’ throughout the poem allows the reader to interpret and understand why there is a barrier between the neighbours. “Sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun” (lines 2-3) is an example of imagery used to help the responder to create a distinctively visual description of the setting. The responder can see that the ‘wall’ is visually described as a giant barrier. Through the use of the imagery in the quote and the distinctively visual image Frost has created through it, the responder is able to interpret the distance in the relationship between humans. “Good fences make good neighbours” (line 27), once again frost uses the distinctively visual image of the fence being the neighbour in order to convey his theme of man’s relationship with each other through the characterisation of the neighbour. The repetition of this quote throughout the poem…
“Mending Wall” is written in blank verse and iambic pentameter which makes the poem seem like natural speech. Additionally Frost only uses words that are shorter than three syllables to make the poem seem even more natural. Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter with 10 syllables per line, however some of the lines are eleven syllables. This emphasizes the importance of certain lines. For example lines 27 and 45, where the…
The reason for beginning with Frost’s poem from the literal stance is to establish a foundation in which symbols are used as metaphors. “Mending Wall,” is literally after winter when the speaker and his neighbor repair the wall. A wall which was damaged by unseen nature and hunters. As they repair the wall the speaker questions the reason why the neighbor wants the wall repaired. He infers that their trees are different and produce opposite things. Even though, the speaker internally questions why the neighbor wants to keep this wall amid them, he wonders if he can cause the neighbor to question his own ideas about the wall. He does not act on this thought instead he continues to walk down the wall rebuilding it from his side, as the neighbor does the same.…
Cited: Clarke, Peter. “Mending Wall.” Rev. of Frost’s Mending Wall, ed. Robert Frost. Explicator Fall 1984: p48. Print.…
In the poem ‘Mending Wall’, Frost portrays two neighbours working together to fix a wall, despite being at odds with each other.…
Even though the story of "Mending Wall" focusing on the hard labor that comes once a year to neighbors repairing a common wall between their properties they also share good times together. "Good fences make good neighbor 's". (page 1881)…
In “Mending Wall”, Frost mentions how the wall affect people. He states that the narrator thinks negatively about his neighbor, and how it keeps them separated. “Good fences make good neighbors” (Frost). President Ronald Reagan states from his text, “Tear Down This Wall”, that the people on one side doesn't have their freedom, affects…
there are deeper meanings to this poem. The poem is no longer regarded as just a children’s…
The Opening and Closing Lines of the Poem is interesting because if you put them together it describes the main points of the text.…
I decided to compare the neighbor in Robert Frost’s poem, Mending Wall, to the hunter in Eudora Welty’s story, A Worn Path. In Robert Frost’s poem, the neighbor is making the narrator mad because the neighbor has a wall and the narrator doesn’t like it. The narrator insists that the neighbor should take the wall down but the neighbor doesn’t want to and everytime the narrator complains about the wall, the neighbor just says “Good fences make good neighbors.” At the end of the poem, we find out that the neighbor continues to say this because his father used to say it. This shows that the neighbor likes to hold on to traditions and because he refuses to take the wall down this also shows that he doesn’t like to try or accept new things.…
to lend meaning to the poem beyond its existence as a work of historic fiction…
To paraphrase this poem, it is about two neighbors who annually meet to fix the wall that divides them. One neighbor thinks that the wall is unnecessary, especially because they do not have anything that needs to be contained like animals. However, the other neighbor believes the wall should remain, and keeps repeating the phrase, “Good fences make good neighbors.”…
symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide…
Here is what I thought of the poem after reading and studying it. It is not so much an analysis of the poem, but an analysis of the devices used to convey the thesis of the poem.…