How much can one learn about life from reading poetry and novels? Has anyone ever stopped to wonder what it is about books makes them so stupendous at teaching life lessons? Well there are many literary devices to choose form that could be considered for this topic. Robert Frost has done an extravagant job in displaying three critical literary devices, through his poem “Mending Wall”, which is a poem about a wall blocking a relationship between two neighbors. In Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” he shows how poetic language, poetic form, persona, and tone are the strongest literary devices used to teach his readers a life lesson. Starting off, the first way Frost’s work was able to teach a life lesson is through poetic language. Poetic language’s
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This is the overall feeling and delivery of the message through the poem. If the message is not delivered properly, then the lessons will not be picked up and that is what makes the persona and tone so important as a literary device. For instance if Robert Frost made his poem happy instead of sad, then people would receive the opposite message of the one he is trying to give. The first example of showing the somber mood of this poem is when the speaker is questioning the purpose of the wall and says “Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it/Where there are cows? But here there are no cows./Before I built a wall I’d ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out,” (Frost 30-33).This quote shows the speaker growing concern for wanting to know why his neighbor is locking him out. He is searching for any possible excuses on why the neighbor would want to put a wall to block him out. There is a second mood in this poem as well, and that is the mood of his neighbor. His neighbor does not appear to be bothered by the speaker’s concerns for the wall as he feels indifferent. The neighbor seems to be detached, which can be seen by the only quote he ever says to the speaker “Good fences make good neighbors” (Frost 27). This shows that the neighbor wants no business talking to the speaker or anyone else outside his wall. He wishes to be sheltered to his home away from the …show more content…
Without poetic language, he would have never gotten enough detail into the story to make it meaningful, which shows the importance of using such descriptive languages with similes and symbols. Next is that he was very efficient in his use poetic form to entertain his audience to keep their attention. If his audience were not interested in this work they would not read it from start to finish so all of his work would have been for nothing. This deems poetic form necessary when attempting to teach a life lesson. Then the last literary device which was needed to teach his lesson was the persona and tone. If Frost had made it so these characters were happy then his audience would think that these are things to do in their life to make themselves happy. This shows how the tone in the poem must be used properly to give the poem its needed affect. Poetic form, poetic language, persona, and tone all show how poetry can explain life lessons in a form that will not be
This is the overall feeling and delivery of the message through the poem. If the message is not delivered properly, then the lessons will not be picked up and that is what makes the persona and tone so important as a literary device. For instance if Robert Frost made his poem happy instead of sad, then people would receive the opposite message of the one he is trying to give. The first example of showing the somber mood of this poem is when the speaker is questioning the purpose of the wall and says “Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it/Where there are cows? But here there are no cows./Before I built a wall I’d ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out,” (Frost 30-33).This quote shows the speaker growing concern for wanting to know why his neighbor is locking him out. He is searching for any possible excuses on why the neighbor would want to put a wall to block him out. There is a second mood in this poem as well, and that is the mood of his neighbor. His neighbor does not appear to be bothered by the speaker’s concerns for the wall as he feels indifferent. The neighbor seems to be detached, which can be seen by the only quote he ever says to the speaker “Good fences make good neighbors” (Frost 27). This shows that the neighbor wants no business talking to the speaker or anyone else outside his wall. He wishes to be sheltered to his home away from the …show more content…
Without poetic language, he would have never gotten enough detail into the story to make it meaningful, which shows the importance of using such descriptive languages with similes and symbols. Next is that he was very efficient in his use poetic form to entertain his audience to keep their attention. If his audience were not interested in this work they would not read it from start to finish so all of his work would have been for nothing. This deems poetic form necessary when attempting to teach a life lesson. Then the last literary device which was needed to teach his lesson was the persona and tone. If Frost had made it so these characters were happy then his audience would think that these are things to do in their life to make themselves happy. This shows how the tone in the poem must be used properly to give the poem its needed affect. Poetic form, poetic language, persona, and tone all show how poetry can explain life lessons in a form that will not be