Process of growing up Through the process of growing up many people gain knowledge and go through the loss of friendships and relationships. Robert Frost, one of the most favored and honored American poets during World War I depicts through two poems a trend that shows how one grows up and adapts to their surroundings. He is able to promote a colloquial, restrained language that implies message instead of just revealing it through strong verbal language of hidden messages within the text. Both poems, Mending Wall and Out, Out- use characterization, and symbolism in order to attain Frosts’ themes of loss of innocence and one’s bonding of friendship. The characterization, and symbolism used in Mending Wall and Out, Out- gives readers an understanding
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Each instance of symbolism reinforces one of Frost’s themes. Frost supports the theme of one’s bond in a friendship in Mending wall with symbolism. In this poem, the wall, symbolically is the neighbor's friendship. Though not liked by the narrator the neighbor stands ground to the point that the wall is what keeps their friendship going. Even though the wall does not seem significant to the friendship of the two neighbors, it is. It is used to keep dissension between the neighbors away and with tearing it down, it may cause conflict, a break in their friendship. Another symbol used within the poem is when the narrator compares his neighbor to a “savage… [an] old-stone savage,” (Frost 611). Symbolically, this means that the neighbor is not using the wall, in this time period for good use. In this time period walls are used to keep others out, to protect others from dangerous situations. In the poem they are using the wall for the protection of their land, not for the protection of a dangerous time which includes war, or an invasion of some sort. The narrator does not see the danger that the wall is keeping them from, but on the other hand the neighbor thinks that the danger is the friendship they have. Taking the wall down is dangerous because if it is taken down the risk of the friendship and bond between the neighbors may be altered or changed. Through this the bond between the two men over the destruction of the wall it creates the theme of a bond within a friendship. The bond they have with the wall up is good enough to say that tearing the wall down will possibly cause a break in their
Each instance of symbolism reinforces one of Frost’s themes. Frost supports the theme of one’s bond in a friendship in Mending wall with symbolism. In this poem, the wall, symbolically is the neighbor's friendship. Though not liked by the narrator the neighbor stands ground to the point that the wall is what keeps their friendship going. Even though the wall does not seem significant to the friendship of the two neighbors, it is. It is used to keep dissension between the neighbors away and with tearing it down, it may cause conflict, a break in their friendship. Another symbol used within the poem is when the narrator compares his neighbor to a “savage… [an] old-stone savage,” (Frost 611). Symbolically, this means that the neighbor is not using the wall, in this time period for good use. In this time period walls are used to keep others out, to protect others from dangerous situations. In the poem they are using the wall for the protection of their land, not for the protection of a dangerous time which includes war, or an invasion of some sort. The narrator does not see the danger that the wall is keeping them from, but on the other hand the neighbor thinks that the danger is the friendship they have. Taking the wall down is dangerous because if it is taken down the risk of the friendship and bond between the neighbors may be altered or changed. Through this the bond between the two men over the destruction of the wall it creates the theme of a bond within a friendship. The bond they have with the wall up is good enough to say that tearing the wall down will possibly cause a break in their