Robert Frost Mending Wall
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 the speaker’s neighbor as a static, conforming character. The neighbor routinely joins the speaker in mending the wall, and twice throughout the poem announces, “‘Good fences make good neighbors’” (Frost 27, 45). However, the tone of this line
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 the speaker’s neighbor as a static, conforming character. The neighbor routinely joins the speaker in mending the wall, and twice throughout the poem announces, “‘Good fences make good neighbors’” (Frost 27, 45). However, the tone of this line