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The Wall/Fences
The wall is the shining star of this poem. It
unites our speaker and his neighbor, but
separates them as well. As we hear the
neighbor speak the proverb twice ("Good
fences make good neighbors"), w...
MENDING WALL
By Robert Frost
Or, first you can read Gene's comments about the Poem:
SYMBOLISM!!
If you read what I wrote on the first page, then you know why I love
Frost. The paragraph next to my picture says it. My favorite poems are
the ones on this site. My special favorite is "Mending wall". My 10 acre
piece of property is completely surrounded by a stone wall, six feet thick
in some places! It is built completely of stones picked up from the fields
where someone spent 200 years trying to scratch a living out of this
ground. And I have "mended" parts of it! And I'm not sure what is being
walled in, and what is being walled out!
The best part about "symbolism" in literature is that it can mean many
things to many people. That's the whole point! If the Poet had something
very, very definite to say, he would spell it out in plain English; and it
would then not mean as much to you, because it just wouldn't be a
"picture" painted in your mind. And remember this: Perhaps the Poet
HAD nothing specific to say, and merely wanted you to experience HIS
vision, or memory, or what have you!
The following is a quote written by Louis Untermeyer in the 1940's. It
is found in "The Pocket Book of Robert Frost's Poems", Henry Holt,
1946. It will tell you what some people think Frost meant. And I agree
with some of it. Pay particular attention to the first two sentences of the
last paragraph. Show them to your teacher and ask him/her if it's not
possible to sometimes read a poem for the sheer enjoyment of the mental
picture it conjures up, and not have to analyze it too much.
Untermeyer's comments:
"The strength of 'Mending Wall', one of Frost's most often quoted
poems, rests upon a contradiction. Its two famous lines oppose each other.
The poem maintains that:
" 'Something there is that doesn't love a wall.'
"But it also insists:
" 'Good fences make good neighbours.'
"The contradiction is logical, for the opposing statements are uttered
by two different types of people and both are right. Man cannot live
The Mending Wall, was written by Robert Frost. In this poem, he presents to the readers the idea
barriers. (Essay Analyzing of Mending Wall by Robert Frost) The poem consists of two characters, who ar
separate their property.
The center point in the poem is Something there is that doesn't love a wall. Robert Frost mentione
could be God or nature, which desires to break down the barriers that the humans place between each other.
the damage to the wall as evidenced by the line 2 & 3, That sends the frozen ground swell under it, and spi
wall and find the rabbit that hiding in the wall. (The Mending Wall) The narrator does not love the wall a
done it before him when the place used for range.
Mending wall could improve the neighbors communication and friendship between them. The two
day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. The wall is important to them. It ma
disputes while they are repairing the wall. The wall gives the neighbors their own privacy. It also gives the t
about when they are repairing on the wall. Every spring time they are rebuilding the wall together. They als
In this poem, the line 24, He is all pine and I am apple orchard, it said the right places that belong
neighbor. The neighbors property is representation of his privacy and the wall acts as a barrier against intru
right places for the apple orchard and a pine plantation. They are owned by the narrator and his neighbor. H
The theme of the poem is about two neighbors who disagree over the need of a wall to separate thei
neighbors' friendship, separating them. (Essay Analyzing of Mending Wall) For the neighbor with the pine
make the people be friendly and closely as he mentions twice in this poem, Good fences make good neigh
intrusion. At lines 36 to 38 I could say 'Elves' to him, but it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather he said it for h
to break down walls. (Mending Wall)
A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects space. The word mending m
point of view of a person on one side of the wall. It told on one side of the wall the readers get a better sens
the readers that his ideas of barriers between people, communication, friendship and the sense of security pe
Bibliography:
Bibliography:
Julie & Laura (n.d.). The Mending Wall. Retrieved December 2,
2005 from New Trier High School, English Department Web site:
http://nths.newtrier.k12.il.us/academi
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From parkse - 2005-12-11 7:06 PM
Danis writing is very well organized, and the ideas that she provided are knowledgeable. The evide
going to write. However, there were some errors that I found.
In the third paragraph, she used the word same. This word should have used after the article, the.
time they are rebuilding the wall together. After Every spring time it should have a comma after it.
In the fourth paragraph, she missed a comma between meaning and which. Everything has two sid
long. It would be better if she divide some of her sentences into two or three.
In our society, the walls just like the masks that people wear them everyday. This sentence is in he
The way of some peoples talking different as their thinking. This sentence sounds awkward; its little har
thought is different from what they actually thinking. At the end of this paragraph, she questioned the read
Her fifth paragraph is too short!! She needs more details and example to support it.
For the conclusion, it would be better if she mentioned her main ideas briefly. How about adding some sug
for the run on sentence, and be careful when using a comma. In addition, the bibliography is must in alphab
I reread today Dans analysis on (The Mending Wall) her audience is basically anyone who had read the poe
given a possible meaning to each one of them. Your argument seems to go around what is the meaning of th
that something is very good, you give lot examples based in both possible explanations the natural and th
When you explain the natural part of the wall you do a comparison with the human behavior and the mask s
could get along much better and at the same time respect each other property. Like I said your argument is g
go that is not good for the human, but later on you say that the wall will help both neighbors to get along m
It was a good choice of you to add the definitions of the wall and mending, because this will help the reader
you try to interpret in the best way you could. Your format and grammar was good, I think that the only thin