I Also Liked The Mending Wall Analysis

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

My favorite poem was Offerings to an Ulcerated God by Martin Espada. The reason for this is it was the only poem that really made me empathize and feel emotions for the characters. It jumps right in with a quote from the landlord’s lawyer. He says Mrs. Lopez refuses to pay rent and so she has to leave. Mrs. Lopez is the tenet and only speaks spanish, so the judge ask for an interpreter. But, all the interpreters are working elsewhere. A volunteer interpreter stands and Mrs. Lopez shows the interpreter pictures of her apartment/house. The conditions in this apartment/ house are horrible. It has rats, no doorknob and the water in the toilet is frozen. Mrs. Lopez tells the interpreter that she knows the law, will not pay because of the horrible conditions and wants to speak. Without hearing from Mrs. Lopez, the judge states that she must pay and has 10 days to leave. Everyone accepts this gets up to leave. The interpreter is ashamed he could not help her.

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 poem I chose as my favorite was, Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt by David Bottoms. The poem is about a young boy who played baseball with his father being his coach. Constantly, his father with stress the importance of bunting; yet, the son never understood why. The son continued wanting to hit his home runs and scoring for the glory. As the boy grew into a man he finally understood why his father had stressed the bunt all those years. The father was trying to show the boy sacrifice. The person who bunts normally is thrown out. When the boy was younger he did not understand this, but as he grew older he understood the message his father was trying to show him. This poem is my favorite because I can see some of my own actions throughout

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.

He also uses other devices such as a pun, applied in the line, "And to whom I was like to give offence." The last word of the line simply emphasizes the importance of the subject, the fence. The most prominent figure of speech, however, is the ironic, "Good fences make good neighbors." This is completely opposite of the connotation of the poem. Fences do not make neighbors, but strangers that are apathetic towards each other. The neighbor seems to prefer this approach, to eliminate any risks of trespassing or offenses. Yet what the fence really does is hinder the development of friendship. This is comparable to the barriers of bitterness, anger, hate, and fear men put between one another that obstruct love and friendship.

Like the neighbor in the poem that keeps away their house even being friend with the narrator, the neighbor keep everything to themselves. I tend to put wall between me and other people, if they want to be friend with me they have to break that wall that I built which can be hard because I never ever let anyone see the real me like how the neighbor never let anyone near their boundaries. Boundaries are important to some people, people who are quite like being alone wants peace or have problem probably that why they put wall around them and don’t let other people near them even if they’re hurting so bad they won’t admit it. The narrator keep mentioning that, “good fences make good neighbors” explaining that the neighbor wants to know more about the neighbor that the narrator is so interested in

The narrator himself is not fond of the wall — he feels that the wall is unnecessary, unfriendly, and slightly offensive. However, his neighbor says, "Good fences make good neighbors. " This is an old proverb that implies that there are only good, happy neighbors when there are boundaries; that way, there is no fighting over whose property is whose. It helps to create lines, which eliminates potential conflict. For example, if there is a tree that is in between two houses, who must rake the leaves each fall?

The first stanza of the poem, states many ways in which a person can overcome this wall. For example,

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

Loneliness leads to depression and depressed people know a loneliness like no other. The pasture and the barbed wire could be a symbol of the wall or fence that we put up when we are depressed. In this poem, we would be the horses. All it takes is someone to scale the fence and, whether we want to admit it or not, we become grateful that they’re

“A Song in the Front Yard” is my favorite out of all the ones due to the meaning behind it and how the emotions the narrator is experiencing are relatable. This poem tells a story of young girl who has two different sides. She was raised to be a prime and proper lady, yet she wants to be bad and wild. The first stanza that shows her longing for a change and to be like others is “I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back, where it’s rough and untended and hungry weeds grows.

In the poems “The Interlopers” and “Mending Wall” by Saki and Robert Frost they show how some of the traditions passed on from generation to generation can affect people in the wrong way. ¨The Interlopers¨ is about two families that are in a family feud over a piece of land to hunt even though this land Ian’s is absolute trash. Mending Wall is about two neighbors that have built a wall between their property just two go back every Spring they have to rebuild it because it keeps falling apart every winter and between these two neighbors one believes that they should get rid of the wall the other is.

He named the project “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” which was an homage to Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall.”“Arch” was an installation that was on display from October 12 to February 11, 2017 in Washington Square Park, as part of his ambitious project. The artwork was a 37-foot silver, steel cage that mimicked the shape of the marble arch that it was embedded under. Through the center of the cage, Ai Weiwei cut out a passageway in the silhouette of two people in embrace. The passage was lined with a ribbon of polished stainless steel with allowed visitors to view their own reflection as they walked under “Arch.” Due to the project’s grand scale, several parties, including the city government, the parks and transportation department, and the Public Art Fund was involved in bringing this project to life. The Public Art Fund commissioned Ai Weiwei’s vision as part of their 40th anniversary. Ai Weiwei intended for his art to shed light on the worldwide refugee crisis. Because of this, Ai Weiwei also installed many of his pieces in historically immigrant neighborhoods to convey his message. He wanted to expose New Yorkers to the current sociopolitical environment that was affecting the entire

Frost used a distinct way of writing throughout his poem that not only hooked the reader into the story, but also made them question their own views of walls, both physical and psychological. In the poem it is displayed that walls can be both good and bad. The wall that the narrator sees as the embodiment of what separates them, it is actually the one thing that brings them together every spring. Near the end, the narrator brings back the original question, what is the something? With this poem, maybe Frost wanted the reader to examine themselves and their surroundings and try to answer the question of tradition, and how they unite us and separates us at the same time. The narrator’s neighbor is the personification of the old ways and custom in the poem, it is evident as he is constantly repeating “good fences make good neighbors” (Frost 245) and the fact that “he will not go behind his father’s saying” (Frost 246). Even though, good fences make good neighbors is a well-known proverb, people will eventually ask themselves: Why is it necessary to have fences to build good