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Robert Frost
“Mending wall”

By
Ahmed Waleed Jabbar

Morning study - section A

2020
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Introduction
“Mending Wall" is a thought-provoking poem
about human limitations and their benefits in
the society. It was first published in 1914. The
poem is about two neighbors who meet in
spring every year to mend the stone wall that
separates their farms. It illustrates how good
fences make good neighbors, and how we
can maintain long-lasting relations with
neighbors by establishing such walls. Since
its publication, it has gained immense
popularity across the globe on account of its
simple yet profound subject. "Mending Wall"
as a Representative of Tradition: This poem
is about the activity of mending a wall that the
speaker and his neighbor perform every year
in spring. The narrator of the poem feels that there is no need for any
boundary, as neither of them has anything precious to keep in lawns. They
have just trees. To him, mending the wall is a purposeless activity. He also
observes the falling of stones from the wall and comments that even nature is
not in favor of this fence. (Wikipedia.web)

The poem form

we can see that the lines don’t rhyme with one another, so it isn't a traditional poetic
form like a sonnet or a ballad. However, at the same time. If you sound out the lines,
you can hear that they fall into a distinct rhythm and pattern. This regular meter
known as iambic pentameter, because there are five stressed beats, or feet, per line
means that this is not a free verse poem. Although it does not rhyme, these metrical
verse features mean that we refer to it as blank verse

Themes
● The Wall
The "mending wall" a poem about two neighbors make fixes on wall to separate their
properties. the speaker begins to ask for what reason do they have even a divider ?
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During the time, the rancher and his neighbor meet to modify this divider yet the
speaker begins to ask for what reason do they have even a divider ? the neighbor
wouldn't like to address custom and he just answers " good fences make good
neighbors." The speaker attempts to get him to rethink this view. He describes the
divider as excessively definitive and recommends that individuals should think more
before just aimlessly following customs. the neighbor stays unconvinced that makes
the speaker consider him to be somewhat the exemplification of dark ages savagery.
In " Mending Wall " we see that the dividers are conflicting with the regular request
on the grounds that , hounds can't get to hares as a result of the dividers. Besides ,
trackers need to tear down the dividers to get the bunny. The speaker thoroughly
understands the trackers. He tells " I have come after them " that shows this is a
typical thing. He knew their motivation and why they do it. they are attempting to
discover bunnies that cover up in the divider which their pooches can eat though no
one knows how this puzzling thing breaks the divider. Reconstructing this divider is
uniting them, however the purpose of the gathering is to defined limits between one
another. Divider is a hindrance between two distinctive world perspectives. They
have various mentalities to move toward real factors. Ice states " We keep the
divider us as we go. To each the rocks that have tumbled to each . " in the sonnet .
The way that it is definitely simply going to tumble down once more. They mindful
this won' stop the divider falling, yet they despite everything do it even that they are
in torment. It alludes as a " we " , alluding to the neighbor and the storyteller , while
they are joined in their errand . As the storyteller goes into describe repairing walls
He expresses that a few loaves and a few so about balls. All things considered the
way toward fixing dividers like playing with balls. It represents two different parts of
the real world. The ball is for amusement so we can live without a ball , yet we can't
survive without portions. Something which is so vital. It is still parts of the life . The
speaker acknowledges his neighbor's " stay where are until our backs are turned ! "
Saying as a piece of spell to keep up the retouching custom. Then again , the
speaker scrutinizes this custom in a wry manner and characterizes it like a " outdoor
game " The incongruities and mocking methodologies , don't change the speaker's
perspective. the speaker delineates the unnecessity of the divider with line " there
were it is we needn't bother with the divider " This line followed by the line " He is all
pine and i am apple orchard" We understand that the speaker knows about their
various methodologies . The dividers are expanded allegory for the division between
the neighbors.

● the perpetrator
Robert Frost never named the person or thing that separates the divider over and
over, he leaves hits about the genuine character of the culprit. The guilty party being
referred to is simply the writer.
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The principal insight about this is given in the expression "frozen-ground-swell”

Another tern for this marvel is ice hurl. Ice is additionally the writer's own last name.
Once more, towards the finish of the sonnet, he discusses mythical beings. Presently
mythical people are known to be evil in nature. The artist likewise says that
springtime has achieved the underhandedness in himself. So he has become
mythical resembling. Be that as it may, he isn't actually a mythical person. he doesn't
have their pointy ears or their heavenly powers. He is a negligible human and he
doesn't really have the mental fortitude to concede that it was he who separated the
divider. That is the reason he would lean toward it if his neighbor would approach
and blame him for the equivalent. On the off chance that the neighbor were to do as
such, Frost would straightforwardly admit to his wrongdoing. Until the neighbor asks
however, the writer will just attempt to persuade him that the divider is superfluous
and trust he will make a deal to avoid rebuild it.

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mending_Wall

https://www.ukessays.com/essays/english-literature/mending-wall-by-robert-frost-en
glish-literature-essay.php