Thesis For Mending Wall

Throughout history, boarders have been dividing people, countries, and cultures apart from each other, most notably with land. People tend to claim their own boundary and solely communicate with others inside their boarders, whether it be a house or country. In the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, he introduces two neighbors who have a wall separating their farms. One neighbor is the speaker, who has apple trees, and the other neighbor is the narrator, who has pine trees. The setting takes place in a New England countryside during springtime. The situation of the poem begins with a crumbled wall between two neighbors where they meet every year to repair the damages done. During this springtime repairing, the speaker starts to question the
The speaker questions the reason for the wall and mentions how his side of the wall is all apple trees and the narrators side is all pine trees. Therefore, he questions why do we need a dividing wall if we already know our property line? The narrator simply replies “’Good fences make good neighbors’” (27). The narrator presents his view on walls with this proverb. He believes that if you have a wall dividing two people’s property, good neighbors will respect those lines and not cross or disobey them. It is clear that the two are in disbelief at this point in the poem, changing the tone to become more clashing and stubborn. As the speaker depicts the narrator, “I see him there/ bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top/ in each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.” (38-40) you can see the visual imagery of a man carrying stone to the wall. Also, the speaker using the term ‘old-stone savage armed,’ which leaves you to picture an older man, who are often stubborn people. This stubbornness is reassured in the next couple lines, “He will not go behind his father’s saying, / And he likes having thought of it so well/ He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’” (44-46). The poem ends off with the speaker and the narrator having a difference in viewpoints about the wall. On one side you have a person who values the idea of the wall because his father taught him that the features a wall represents are positive. Such as, protection from trespassing and a line to divide your property telling fellow neighbors this is mine and not yours. Whereas on the other side you have a person who does not value the wall for what it is. They believe that the wall creates limited communication and there is no need for it because the neighbors know where their property begins and