Robert Frost's Mending Wall

To be lonely and to be alone, those two words are similar yet different. The very fact that each of them have the same context makes the understanding even more complex. Imagine that you are in a box and the box was filled with people from your childhood. Friends...family? You do not feel so alone now, do you? Now imagine, you are going through one of the deepest struggles in your life. Almost like a hole that never ends. Those people still are in your life, but what if they were not emotionally there for you. You would probably feel lonely, depressed even. You see, the difference between a crowd of physical bodies and the emotional imbalance tends to vary. Each with a different meaning. The famous poet Robert Frost explains the process of …show more content…
This is because of a simple wall that divides the two apart every year. Robert Frost uses the rock wall as a symbol of separation. Each winter of every year the wall gets knocked down, and each spring of every year...him and his neighbor fix the fence. At one point in this story the main character simply turns to his neighbor and says “This is where we don't need a wall” (pg 879), to which his neighbor says “Good fences make good neighbors” (pg 879). The alienation that is being forced between these two men is the safety of being alone. Neither are lonely… they just choose to stay away from …show more content…
Robert speaks about the guy and how he wishes to be alone and so he stands in the woods alone and just takes in the beauty of the oversized snowflakes. He states “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep...and miles to go before I sleep…” (pg 877). This just says that the main character wishes he could stay there, but knows very well that he can’t. This poem shows an example of someone that wishes to be alone, even if he has the choices to be with other people. Which is fairly deep, In one specific article… the author states that some people like to be alone so that they can gather their own