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Comparing Frost And Reagan's Speech By Robert Frost

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Both Frost's poem and Reagan's speech deal with the theme d separation. Frost discussed two neighbors who are separated by a stone wall. The narrator speaks of his dislike for this stone wall. In Reagan's speech he talks of the Berlin Wall dividing East and West Berlin. These two both emphasize how the physical barriers created emotional ones.

Building physical and emotional walls has a negative impact on the people, countries, and civilizations they divide. In the case of Frost's poem, the wall took away the narrator's voice. The narrator disliked the wall, but was too timid to speak up for what he believes in. His neighbor says "good walls make good neighbors," but the narrator felt as if the wall should be torn down, and they should unite

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