What Is The Mood Of The Poem Mending Wall

In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” two men, the narrator and his neighbor, perform an annual repair on a wall separating their property. The narrator description of his neighbor depicts him as a savage blinding following a tradition of maintain a wall to separate his property from the surroundings. The description of the repairing of the wall shows that the two men work concurrently but without cooperating. The depiction of nature as the cause of the gradual destruction of the wall shows that separation is unnatural. Frost uses the description of the neighbor, the mending of the wall, and the source of the wall’s ruin in order to communicate to the reader that a good neighbor embraces collaboration in addition to coordination. The use of diction
The narrator describe their repair as little more than “just another kind of outdoor game” (“Mending Wall” 21). While the two men work on opposite sides of the wall and never come into contact, they move down the length of the wall together, working in parallel. This shows a sense of implied coordination between the narrator and his neighbor. The poem's style reflects this sense of informal planning. While the poem does not have a rhyme scheme, it does make use of strict meter, in particular iambic pentameter. This strict meter required planning in order to implement. Similarly, the two men plan to meet at the wall for repairs. Working at the as same pace and fixing their side of the wall also requires coordination between the narrator and neighbor. However, the two men never work together, as it is made physically impossible by the wall. In addition, the poem suggests that they work in near silence save the narrator’s occasional comment on the wall. The fact that they are essentially repairing the border that divides them from each other reinforces this sense of isolationism. [concluding
The first source of damage to the wall is mentioned in the beginning of the poem. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, / That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, / And spills the upper boulders in the sun; / And makes gaps even two can pass abreast” (“Mending Wall” 1-4). The “something” that sends frozen ground swells to destroy the wall represents nature. The heating and cooling of the water in the soil due to seasonal changes is what is causing the wall’s foundation to give away. Therefore, nature is creating “gap even two can pass abreast” (“Mending Wall” 4). Reasonably, the two which can pass through the gap represent the narrator and the neighbor. Therefore, nature has given them a way to both move through the wall together and collaborate. Later in the poem, the narrator describes the rocks used in repairing the wall. “To each the boulders that have fallen to each. / And some are loaves and some so nearly balls / We have to use a spell to make them balance ” (“Mending Wall” 16-18). The boulders, rounded by erosion, do not stay in the wall for very long. This fact emphasizes that the wall is inherently unstable and very unnatural. By extension, preventing cooperation is unnatural. Because cooperation is natural, a good neighbor should embrace it instead of attempting to avoid