Comparative Study of “Mending Wall” and “The Lottery” Traditions bring people together for a purpose of handing down beliefs or customs from generation to generation. The tradition could be for a joyous purpose like Thanksgiving or Christmas‚ and even a sorrowful purpose like funerals or a date like September 11. In “Mending Wall” the tradition brought two neighbors together each year to repair any damage made to their fence. However‚ in “The Lottery” the tradition brings the whole town together
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Short Paper: “Mending Wall” a. Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” describes two neighbors who are constructing a wall/fence‚ which they come together each spring—after all the snow has vanished—to repair. The neighbors do not seem to have a significant relationship to one another‚ and the speaker of the poem questions the purpose of the wall they are building (“Mending Wall‚” Frost). b. I would say the major theme is that walls build respectable boundaries; however‚ these walls do not give people
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Mending wall Robert frost Throughout the history of man‚ separation has been a part to their lives in one fashion or another. Man has faced separation from their god‚ from their community‚ from their loved ones and from their dreams and desires. Recognizing this continuing condition‚ writers throughout time have written about such separation that people have experienced. In fact‚ separation seems to be the central theme in many literary pieces of work. Robert Frost gave us the poem‚ “Mending
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From Robert Frost ’s Mending Wall to Pink Floyd ’s Another Brick in the Wall‚ humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances‚ beliefs and territories. Although each "wall" is different they serve the same purpose and both Frost and Floyd oppose them. Robert Frost ’s Mending Wall is a very popular poem. This poem consists of two characters: the narrator and his neighbor. In this poem the two neighbors are mending a stone wall that separates their property
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To paraphrase this poem‚ it is about two neighbors who annually meet to fix the wall that divides them. One neighbor thinks that the wall is unnecessary‚ especially because they do not have anything that needs to be contained like animals. However‚ the other neighbor believes the wall should remain‚ and keeps repeating the phrase‚ “Good fences make good neighbors.” “Mending Wall” is in the form of a narrative. It is in iambic pentameter and is a blank verse. Frost utilizes repetition of two specific
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It is no secret how Robert Frost feels about walls after reading his poem “Mending Wall”. To say that Frost admired and favored walls would be a lie. On the contrary‚ based on his poem it is apparent that he would prefer there be no walls present. I was led to ask myself‚ what type of wall is Frost referring to? It is not merely a physical wall made of stone‚ but a barrier that people place among each other to create an illusion of separation and protection. The style of the poem makes it simple
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Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall‚” through its depiction of neighbors coming together to build a wall between each other out of tradition‚ suggests that though there may be hope for progressive thinking‚ Americans generally possess unoriginal views and act in opposition to fundamental patterns of nature. While the neighbor blindly follows tradition and justifies the wall-building with clichéd phrases‚ the speaker is portrayed as dynamic regarding his stance on the concept of wall-building. Frost depicts
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Analysis "Mending Wall"‚ By Robert Frost In "Mending Wall"‚ Robert Frost uses a series of contrasts‚ to express his own conflict between tradition and creation. By describing the annual ritual of two neighbors repairing the wall between them‚ he contrasts both neighbors through their ideas and actions‚ intertwining the use of parallelism and metaphors‚ in order to display his own innermost conflict as a poet; the balance between what is to be said and what is to be left to the reader‚ the balance
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our fears‚ secrets‚ and insecurities. In “ Mending Wall” Robert Frost describes the narrator and the neighbor having different positions on whether or not the wall between them‚ both literally and figuratively should be taken down. Robert Frost’s poem‚ “Mending Wall”‚ is about the relationship between the narrator and their neighbor. While the narrator states‚ “Something there that doesn’t love a wall”‚ suggesting that the neighbor believes the wall is no longer needed‚ the neighbor replies with
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Oral Presentation – Mending Walls The persona’s further description creates an imagery that illustrates how hard it is to maintain and balance the barrier. It reads‚ “We have to use a spell to make them (the boulders) balance‚ stay where you are until our backs are turned.” The spell‚ again cannot be true in the real world‚ shows that they need to use imaginary power to maintain balances‚ since the nature of the “boulder”‚ “balls” and “loaves”‚ or in the metaphorical terms‚ the barriers between
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