Conflict In The Interlopers And Mending Wall By Robert Frost

This creates a boundary that, that person never wants crossed again. Every now and again one finds openings within the bricks or holes in their “wall”. These holes in the wall represent the breakdown of one’s blockade as they are trying to let someone in or someone forcing their way in. On the other hand, there are people who love to have an open mindset towards everyone with no boundaries or guards up that they feel necessary. This is similar to the feelings of the speaker, as in lines 1-2 and lines 23 -26 in which the speaker tries to convince his neighbor that they do not need these walls, yet he continues to stick to his traditional saying of “good fences make good neighbors”. This brings the reader to an assumption that the neighbor has created these emotional barriers or “walls” that he is choosing to stick by. This term of “mending” that is used in the title means restored, altered, or adjusted which stands for a symbol in this poem of how as the relationship of the two neighbors changed, so did their fences as they might find these loose pieces. Within the poem the speaker talks of how the season of spring is coming about and he begins to get a little mischievous. This is one way the speaker uses the new season as a way to loosen these bricks within this wall that they have built and tear it down, but the neighbor refuses to give in. There are people like this in the world that try

Some stories show how traditions can change drastically, either for better or for worse. The two texts the Interlopers by Saki and Mending Wall by Robert Frost show how the traditions can change or stay the same through a long period of time. In Saki’s The Interlopers, two families fight over the ownership of a piece of land, and only through them sharing a horrible experience, do they learn the error of their ways. When a tree falls on them both, one offers wine to the other, which was a huge change in the story from wanting to kill each other, to being friends. In Robert Frost’s Mending Wall, two neighbors have a wall between them, and every spring they go and fix it. They have been doing this for a long time, and one of the neighbors

In Robert Frost’s poem, he used a broken physical wall between two neighbors, who both have differing thoughts on the boundary, to illustrate the varying barriers that humans put up between themselves and others.

In Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall,” two neighbors meet annually to repair a wall that serves to separate their properties. The wall and the process of repairing the wall have multiple meanings and is open to interpretation. Throughout the poem, Frost employs numerous literary devices to express to the reader powerful images, and ideas as well as make the poem more interesting.

For example, there was a lot of conflict between Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz in The Interlopers because of a family argument that has been going on for years over the land they live on. They hate each other so much, that they even ran into the forest and tried to kill each other. “Death and damnation to you, Ulrich von Gradwitz” (Saki, The Interlopers) Because of the lawsuit that went on between the two families over the land they live on many years ago, they now are fighting and literally trying to kill each other because of something caused by their families. Another example of how traditions can divide people is in Mending Wall, because the main character just wants to get rid of the wall, but his neighbor refuses to get rid of it. “My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’”

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.

Sometimes, there are people that have really stupid fights for the most ridiculous reason. “The Interlopers” is about these two families that have a feud that has been happening for many years and one day, two people, Ulrich and Georg, were hoping something tragic was going to happen to the other person but nature blows a tree over them so they are pinned to the ground. Then later, they start to figure out the complications between themselves and become friends. When they think it is their men that are coming to help them, it ended up being wolves as the figures coming towards them. The author Saki writes about the theme of friendship can be made with a person that is your enemy in the story “The Interlopers” by using characterization, foreshadowing, and conflict.

In “Mending Wall”, two neighbors are ironically united by the traditional rebuilding of the wall between them. A wall symbolizes boundaries, orders, and separation. Or does it? One of the two neighbors doesn’t seem to think so. “Good fences make good neighbors” is his motto. (Line 26) The neighbor doesn’t see how ironic it is that the wall is a meeting spot. He uses the wall as an excuse to talk with his neighbor, because he is not very open or conversational. The situational irony ostended by Robert Frost is that the wall between the two clashing neighbors is supposed to separate them. However, each year, when they meet to “walk the line”, the wall serves as a meeting spot for the two to catch up. (Line 12) Dividing, but unifying, Frost uses the wall to symbolize unity amongst clashing people. Without the situational irony of repairing the wall, the two incompatible neighbors would unlikely be able to unite.

Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” and its parody by Kenneth Koch “Mending Sump” have a tightly wound connection of style, situation, and irony. Frost, being a man of simplicity when it comes to the writing of his poetry, narrates about boundaries and how necessary they are in any relationship. He criticizes his neighbor

Robert Frost is describing a process in "Mending Wall", which is repairing a wall that separates his territory and his neighbor's. The wall was deteriorated during the winter, when the cold frost created cracks and gaps in the wall. He uses a nearly infantile imagination to unravel the mystery of the damage that appeared suddenly in spring. While they are tediously laboring to reconstruct the fence, Frost is imploring his neighbor about the use of the wall; his apple trees can be clearly distinguished from his neighbor's pine trees. Yet underneath this quotidian routine, Frost goes beyond the surface to reveal its figurative meaning.

Walls separate friends and family from being together and having fun. In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" the narrator and neighbor don't abhor each other but the wall is stopping them from being good neighbors. Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" is about taking down a wall that separates a country into two countries. The walls of the two texts are

The external conflict in the Interlopers is between Ulrich and Georg. The two men both patrol a narrow strip of land which has caused many feuds between the two families which dates back to their grandfathers. In the text “ The neighbor feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to the head of his family. Saki was trying to explain how long and how bad the feud was between the two families. This conflict is man vs. man.

Robert Frost's "The Mending Wall" is a comment on the nature of our society. In this poem, Frost examines the way in which we interact with one another and how we function as a whole. For Frost, the world is often one of isolation. Man has difficulty communicating and relating to one another. As a result, we have a tendency to shut ourselves off from others. In the absence of effective communication, we play the foolish game of avoiding any meaningful contact with others in order to gain privacy.

The poem “Mending Wall’ is very interesting to me. The wall is there to keep boundaries. One man thinks it unnecessary to have this wall

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.