Comparing Frost And Reagan's Speech By Robert Frost

In his poem 'Mending Wall', Robert Frost presents to us the thoughts of barriers linking people, communication, friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery, structure and humor, revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has cleverly intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem, using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic representation of the barriers that separate the neighbors in their friendship.

The theme of separation is present in both texts. Both walls symbolizes separation. Frost’s wall separates neighbors. He believes that “Good fences make good neighbors.” Although Frost’s wall fell apart, they mended it back together. Reagan's wall separates families. The wall also separates the city and country.

Firsts theme of separation. In Frost’s text the narrator is just separated from his neighbor. While Reagan’s text the wall is separating a city and tons of people and family. It has plenty of effects on nature and the city , but also the people.

While the narrator seems more willing to reach out to his neighbor, in the end, he does not. He does wonder why fences supposedly make good neighbors. For him, the question is what is he "walling in or walling out"? He seems to realize that he is "walling out" other people. As long as the symbolic wall stands between the neighbors, they will always be separated. Earlier in the poem, Frost uses the symbolism of a rabbit to seemingly reinforce this point. The hunters must destroy the wall in order to "have the rabbit out of hiding". The men, in turn must break down the walls between them if they are to come out of "hiding". The narrator seems to have a desire to point this out to his neighbor. However, he does not, simply dismissing his idea as "the mischief" that spring has instilled in him. He realizes that he is unable to communicate with his neighbor in any meaningful fashion and, thus, remains in isolation from him.

The theme of separation is present in both texts. While Frost's wall separates neighbors, Reagan's wall separates different things. In Reagan's text, "Tear Down This Wall", his wall separates families. Not only does this wall separate families, but it separates

In both paragraphs you will find the theme of separation. The text that frost told about neighbors that kept a wall in between them. They rebuilt the wall every year.In ronald ragens text talks about the berlin wall. The berlin wall separates families, countries, and cities. The wall in both text symbolizes the separation of the people.

Frost writes about how it makes people act completely different and become hypocritical. People will begin to say one thing but do another. They also separate people from the rest of humanity. Ronald Reagan describes how he believes that walls separate people from society, their rights, freedom, and loved ones. As well as effecting people, walls also impact countries.

Both texts used the theme of separation. Frosts text states that the wall is separating the neighbors. Ragen states that the wall separates families, cities, and europe. The wall symbolizes separation of europe. in Frost's text he states that the wall crumbles in people's front yards but the fix it back every year.

Next, Frost and Reagan both feel as if the wall is affecting people physically and mentally. In "Mending Wall" the narrator seems to say that his neighbor is a savage. The neighbor seems convinced that the

He has many sayings that have double meanings. During the text the narrator talks to himself as he tells the poem, showing internal conflicts. His tone opposes the wall, but doesn't open up and tell his feelings. Such as, how he doesn't want the wall up but he comes and repairs it every year. The same thing is happening in Ronald Reagan's text, but he does something about it. He goes and demands for the wall to be torn down, he convinces people to tear it down. While Robert Frost makes readers infer, Ronald Reagan makes it easier for the readers to understand how he feels and that he doesn't want to wall there. The struggle in both text is theme of

The Poem, “The Mending Wall,” by Robert Frost illustrates two neighbors and their opposing views of what it means to be a good neighbor; one of these neighbors being the speaker. The speaker demonstrates the effects that barriers can have on people, communication, and friendships. These barriers are both physical and emotional barriers. Through the use of irony, symbolism, and metaphors the speaker is able to get this point across. Both the speaker and the neighbor agree that it is a good idea to meet every spring to repair the wall together.

In comparison to Frost’s text, Ronald Reagan’s text tells about how he believed that it was wrong to put a wall up in the middle of a country because it separates the people living in it. Both text talk about the theme of separation. Both Robert and Reagan write about how walls also affect people. In Reagan’s text, if people

     However there is also a separation or segregation. In addition to the separation of the two men, Frost contrasts his “wall” of separation with the idea of segregation in our society. He uses this “wall” to display a separation between people in the current social climate. Lastly, there is the recurring idea that the wall should not be there. “We do not need the wall” This sentence implies that the wall separating us as people, needs to

Robert Frost`s poem “The Mending Wall” was first “published in 1914 by David Nutt in North of Boston” (Modern American Poetry). This poem is narrated by a New England farmer, who does not want to build a wall between the two farms. Some scholars may see this term “Wall” as a boundary line between two countries. Others can argue that this is an allegory, which depicts how neighbors as well are in the human sense, must care for and try to understand one another in spite the differences. I will argue, however, that Frost has created a wall that shows the epitome of his own bound heart which continuously yearning to set free himself from all the attachments of old rituals, which have stuck in his mind. He has used two characters in the poem to show his criticism and attachments, one of them a New England farmer, which represents his heart, and the other is his neighbor, who acts similar to his brain. I will accomplish this by a close reading of two key points that demonstrate this in the poem- the criticism towards the wall, appeal to stop to mend the wall for the freedom of peace of mind and with a biographical analysis of Frost`s life on the pyramid of Maslow’s Hierarchy.