Mending Wall

The “Mending Wall” from what I can decipher is that the wall is metaphorical and used to set boundaries. Regardless of those boundaries Frost and his neighbor know each other well. When he refers to how no one has heard the gaps being in the wall I believe he’s talking about boundaries being crossed without anyone being aware of so. This could relate to a lot of things in anyone’s life, anyone can overstep a boundary by saying, doing, or not doing, and so much more. Another thing to note is how he says the neighbor can’t be swayed from his statement of “Good fences make good neighbors” which is says the neighbor learned from his father. Therefore, it almost comes off as a tradition, but, in all actuality, it’s an inherited behavior from his…

The Berlin Wall, built during the cold war, was a barrier with the purpose of keeping the allies and the Soviet Union away from each other. The wall kept some Germans from seeing what was really important and helped hold the grudge the Soviets and the Allies had with each other. Although The Berlin Wall was way more severe than the barriers people set in everyday life, they both serve the same purpose, to keep people from seeing what they do not want to see. While both Lion in “Goin’ Fishin’” by…

Mending Wall by Robert Frost is about a farmer and his neighbor mending a wall between their houses, but the deeper purpose of the poem is to convey an idea, and this idea is that humans should question our traditions and see reason instead. Throughout the poem the speaker questions the reasons for building the wall, what brings the wall down in the winter, and his relationship with his neighbor. In this poem Frost Achieves the central purpose by using connotation, situational irony, and…

walls are put up to isolate one area from another, whether it separates the inside from the outside of a house or prevents a dog from leaving the yard. In addition, people put up walls of their own. They could do it to avoid someone, hide a certain side of themselves, or just as a barrier. In the poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost uses symbolism to demonstrate people put up barriers to separate themselves from other people and will not let people break traditions because it is difficult…

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,…

“Mending Wall” was first published in 1914 in the second collection of Robert Frost. The poem brings out the comparison of two different kinds of people with different personalities which in this poem are neighbors. The two neighbors have different perspectives regarding the fence but they annually meet and repair the wall once it's destroyed by nature every spring. The speaker believes that the wall is not important but he's the one who initiates the repair of the fence. The neighbor keeps on…

he identified as his home. In 1914 Frost wrote the poem “The Mending Wall,” which was a long stanza of blank verse. The poem of “The Mending Wall,” described two neighbors who had a controversy about the wall dividing their properties. The narrator wanted to remove the wall and his neighbor wanted to keep the wall between them, both having the goal to strengthen their relationship as neighbors. The symbolism of the “mending wall” was the highlighting factor of the entire story. The wall…

Wesley and I chose the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost. This poem is about two neighbors that are divided by a stone wall and in thes scene, they are meeting to repair the wall. One neighbor doesn't understand the need for the wall since there are no animals to fence in and their trees are different. The presentation to our classmates went very well and we were very calm. We were to memorize our intro and try to as little as possible, not look at the poem. The delivery was very well but…

While reading Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”, I find myself curious to understand the greater meaning behind the poem. What does this wall represent? Why does the narrator act as he does? Thorough analysis of rhetoric, form, purpose, diction, and syntax reveals possible implied themes such as requiring boundaries for prosperous relationships and linking futile and persistent acts of barrier-building to the segregation that was contemporaneous to Frost’s composition of this poem. Furthermore,…

In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”, the theme that humans create arbitrary separations between themselves to find comfort in safety is shown through his use of a playful to dark diction and symbolism of the wall. Throughout the poem, a playful diction revolving around the barrier gradually transitions into a dark diction of why these barriers exist. First, a playful diction is presented as the narrator thinks of the barriers as “...just another kind of outdoor game” (Frost 21). Frost uses…