Mending Wall Essay

Robert Frost addresses the human tendency to put fortresses up to hide apart of ourselves from the rest of the world in the poem Mending Wall. The narrator of the poem does not really see the point in repairing the wall, but he continues to come out each spring with his neighbor, which suggests that the experience is fulfilling in some sort of way. A fence is usually associated with division and setting up boundaries between specific areas but in this poem, it is a motive for two neighbors to work together to accomplish a common goal, inevitably not just building a wall but establishing a relationship between them in the process. The theme of this poem is expressed through devices such as tone, diction, and symbolism and has its own rhythm consisting of no stanza breaks, end rhymes, or rhyming patterns and has 5 stressed syllables per line. …show more content…
The speaker blames nature for part of it, but then continues and places another part of the blame on the hunters who send dogs to catch rabbits. The speaker describes the dogs as yelping as if they are an annoyance to the speaker perhaps because they break down the wall. The speaker has to put the effort into going out and fixing it. The speaker goes on to say that they don’t really know when the destruction happens but over time the wall starts to fall apart. In the spring, which is usually a time that lingers with the sense of refreshment, it is a time for renewal and also so happens to be the time that they mend the wall. When looking at the whole picture can be seen as a time to mend and nurture the friendship between the two neighbors kind of like how spring is a time to mend and nurture nature. So the introduction to the poem provides the reader with the image of springtime and also reveals its potential symbolic