Conveying to the reader his themes allows the responder to create a meaning and purpose for his poem. In Mending Wall, the composer uses imagery to convey his theme of the barrier in the relationship between humans. In the poem, the ‘wall’ is a symbolic representation of the barriers that separate friendship between the neighbours. The repetition of the word ‘wall’ throughout the poem allows the reader to interpret and understand why there is a barrier between the neighbours. “Sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun” (lines 2-3) is an example of imagery used to help the responder to create a distinctively visual description of the setting. The responder can see that the ‘wall’ is visually described as a giant barrier. Through the use of the imagery in the quote and the distinctively visual image Frost has created through it, the responder is able to interpret the distance in the relationship between humans. “Good fences make good neighbours” (line 27), once again frost uses the distinctively visual image of the fence being the neighbour in order to convey his theme of man’s relationship with each other through the characterisation of the neighbour. The repetition of this quote throughout the poem…
In the poem “Mending Wall” Robert Frost uses form, function, and philosophy to create meaning. To do this he uses many different techniques like blank verse, enjambment, end-stopped lines, syntax, meter, and iambic pentameter. These techniques are used to support the main theme of tradition versus innovation.…
Both Frost and Reagan talk about theme of separation in their text. For instance, Frost talks about how the wall separates the narrator from his neighbor. Reagan talks about how the horrendous wall separates the city in half and keeping beloved families apart. These examples prove the theme of separation. Although these texts talk about the separation of walls, it also talks about how it affects people.…
The judge’s gavel hit the sound block and just like that I had been sold to the highest bidder, or at least it seemed that way. My Aunt was awarded custody of me and I felt abandoned by my mother. As a result of this trauma, I erected imaginary boundaries to prevent that emotional pain and hide that shame from others. I use this boundary as a protection from people, just as the neighbor in “Mending Wall,” emotionally protects himself. Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, is a collection of Robert Frost’s poems which he offers both a surface and a deep meaning for readers to infer. In Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” he states a literal wall damaged by others and nature is being repaired by two neighbors; however, through profound analysis the wall is a symbol in which the neighbor established as a psychological barriers to protect his emotional scars.…
In the poem ‘Mending Wall’, Frost portrays two neighbours working together to fix a wall, despite being at odds with each other.…
The poems ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘New year’ written by Robert Frost and Edward Thomas are both similar in the idea that they both revolve around encounters. Both poems have many similarities in their presentation and ideas but are also very contrasting. Both have encounters, presented in different ways, some of the key ideas however remain the same in both. Both poets have very contrasting ideas on what these encounters are and what they represent.…
This poems purpose is to discuss the circumstances that good relationships can be formed in. Frost opens up the question that, are dividers like walls and fences the consequence of good relationships. His attitude about the topic is that, the fixing the wall is their time spent together that fosters their relationship. Both have their own reasons for keeping it. The theme of this poem is to teach that sometimes divides are the best way to combine. This is ironic, but true.…
In Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” the speaker proclaims that fame and the things we value last only “an hour” (4). Having lost his wife and children which for him were like gold, Frost comes to the sobering recognition that “Nothing gold can stay” (8). Frost feels plagued by solitude but struggles with distancing himself. Frost’s two poems “Mending Wall” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both represent Frost’s desire for human connection because of its value. Though it appears that Frost seeks solitude and hates human connection, it is actually the case the Frost values human connection and he expresses a sense of obligation in his poetry.…
beneficial to the entirety of the group than dissonance and separation. When society works together as one, it attains the desired objective more rapidly and efficiently. The ultimate goal can only be reached after differences have been overcome, and cooperation has occurred. All of these acts are clearly identified in the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. He uses the wall as an extended metaphor to reveal the narrator's thoughts about overcoming differences, cooperation, and unity.…
The title, “Mending Wall” in a way contradicts itself, to mend is to repair something, while a wall is a barrier; which the speaker is not willing to admit is a dilemma. The poem begins rather serene introducing the area, which the wall was built for. The speaker claims the need for the wall is to keep the rabbits out, please the dogs and his neighbor. The wall could symbolize a barrier which the speaker does not feel he can get past, for fear of the others reaction, or his own fear. In contrast; the neighbor who claims “Good fences make good neighbors”, following the philosophy of his father could be subconsciously justification his desire for his isolation and physical barriers.…
Frost writes about how it is physically challenging to build the wall back up every spring, and how it is a physically symbol of separation. In Frost's text, the wall separates the neighbors physically, so they cannot have unity mentally. Even though the narrator doesn't like the wall, he still helps build it back up every spring. The wall also makes the narrator judge his neighbor as an old stone savage. Reagan writes about how the Berlin Wall is a symbol of totalitarianism, and how it divides the city in economy and government.…
Robert Frost utilizes exceptional imagery and figurative to highlight the physical wall between the neighbor and him, satirizing the critical emotional estrangement and boundary between neighbors. While Frost deems the neighbors’ outdated insistance of keeping the wall unreasonable, the speaker’s attitude was somehow ambiguous for there exists a border in his mind. The small conflicts and emotional changes are realistically amplied by the figurative language and imagery.…
Like other of Frost poems, ‘mending wall’ involves a journey. We are introduced to two farmers in an annual meeting at the wall that separates their properties. They walk the length of the wall, repairing damage that has been done during the year. This process allows us to think the whole question of communication or, more precisely, the way we put up walls and create barriers between ourselves.…
In the poem “Mending Wall”, by Robert Frost, the act of two neighbors routinely repairing a wall between their lands is noted, detailed, and observed. There is a popular belief that boundaries, such as walls, do nothing but divide and tear apart people. In agreement, Robert Frost’s own purpose of portraying this ritual through poetry is to express the same belief that boundaries do nothing but unnaturally separate people. Robert Frost’s theme is conveyed to his readers through his displaying of a natural need for walls to be torn down, his comparisons of walls to segregation, and his literal expression of a belief that walls are a method of division.…
During his life, Robert Frost, the icon of American literature, wrote many poems that limned the picturesque American Landscape. His mostly explicated poems “Birches” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” reflect his young manhood in the rural New England. Both of these poems are seemingly straightforward but in reality, they deal with a higher level of complexity and philosophy. Despite the difference in style and message, “Birches” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” are loaded with vivid imagery and symbolism that metaphorically depict the return to the nature and childhood, the struggle between reality and imagination, and also freedom and captivation.…