Good morning fellow teachers and fellow students. It is true that discoveries often challenge our assumptions and beliefs about humanity. Could it be said that as a resultant our faith and perceptions about humanity will change. Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” and “Home Burial” is a display of such. The 2009 film Gran Torino details the story of a racist Korean War Veteran Walt Kowalski who is sick of modern society, but makes a confronting and emotional discovery of the changing attitudes of humanity.
The poem Mending Wall identifies that central to discovery is to challenge one’s assumptions, exploring mankind’s respect to rules and regulations of humanity, but also longing for change, and challenges ideas of society that reflects one’s humanity. This is evident through repetition that “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” expressing the persona’s striking discovery that a barrier between individuals doesn’t make …show more content…
The wife makes a false discovery that the composer has neither empathy nor compassion stating in a harsh tone “you couldn’t care!” manifesting that false discoveries can changes an individual’s view about humanity. Though in contrast, the speaker using repetition exclaiming that “a man can’t speak of his own child that’s dead,” responding to his wife’s defiance believing that the persona doesn’t share her grief, detailing that an individual’s humanity is perceived differently. Furthermore the speaker uncovers his wife’s source of grief in a sombre tone stating “it is not the stones, but the child’s mound,” expressing that the speaker’s wife still grieves for their child in contrast to the speaker who moved on. This enforces that related discoveries are interpreted differently and the challenge of an individual’s beliefs and assumption about humanity are
The poem Mending Wall identifies that central to discovery is to challenge one’s assumptions, exploring mankind’s respect to rules and regulations of humanity, but also longing for change, and challenges ideas of society that reflects one’s humanity. This is evident through repetition that “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” expressing the persona’s striking discovery that a barrier between individuals doesn’t make …show more content…
The wife makes a false discovery that the composer has neither empathy nor compassion stating in a harsh tone “you couldn’t care!” manifesting that false discoveries can changes an individual’s view about humanity. Though in contrast, the speaker using repetition exclaiming that “a man can’t speak of his own child that’s dead,” responding to his wife’s defiance believing that the persona doesn’t share her grief, detailing that an individual’s humanity is perceived differently. Furthermore the speaker uncovers his wife’s source of grief in a sombre tone stating “it is not the stones, but the child’s mound,” expressing that the speaker’s wife still grieves for their child in contrast to the speaker who moved on. This enforces that related discoveries are interpreted differently and the challenge of an individual’s beliefs and assumption about humanity are