The Importance Of Realism In Mending Wall, By Robert Frost

Frost’s various speaking tones can be shown in his well-known poem “Mending Wall.” Throughout the poem the speaker’s voice is open and relaxed, yet, inward and musing. It helps welcome the reader and at the time entices the reader into a riddle which becomes essential to the poem’s meaning. The speaker’s eventual speculation about what might not “love a wall” becomes a description of the struggle of wall-mending and begins to wonder why he and his neighbor have met to carry out the task in the first place. The speaker’s range of tone throughout the poem varies from seriousness to fantasy to glee.

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.

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.

Dana Gioia argues in this analytical essay that Robert Frost was a narrative poet who left a modernist narrative legacy by writing ballads, linear narratives, dramatic monologues, and dramatic narratives. She provides a thorough description of Frost’s book North of Boston, and she describes the effects the book has had on the way poetry is now written. Gioia states that Frost’s ballads represent the weakest body of his poetic work. She also considers the language in Frost’s linear narratives as “modern and conversational” (4). Gioia makes visible that Frost typically avoided dramatic monologues. She attributes this to Frost’s tendency to write more modernistic poetry. Dramatic narratives are an important category of Frost’s poetry, and Gioia considers this category the largest and most original. She vividly

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.

Juan Avalos Professor Searl English 102 – ITV 25 November 2014 Paper 5 Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He is, without a doubt, one of the greatest poets in American history. Frost used a traditional style and candidly opposed the free verse style. His poetry is deceptively simple, customarily employing colloquial expression that proceeds just as readily as speech and applying a conventional style similar to that of Carl Sandberg, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allen Poe (Roberts & Zweig 2008). Frost 's vivid depictions, and his use of metaphors relate to conceptualizing everyday life by utilizing a perspective of specific interest to explore obscured philosophical and secular subject interests. He manages to take the reader through metaphoric interpretations of daily life by regularly associating man 's connection with nature by employing metaphors. Metaphors, in my opinion, are to poetry what color is to nature. The reader is left with a melancholy when deprived of metaphors. Frost 's first poem, "La Noche Triste," was published in 1890 for his high school newspaper at the Lawrence High School. He graduated in 1892 and was co-valedictorian with his future wife, Elinor Miriam White. Frost enrolled at Dartmouth University and Harvard, but did not earn a formal college degree. Although, Frost 's first paid poem, "My Butterfly," was published in 1894, he had struggled to find a publisher interested in his work. William Prescott Frost Jr.,

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.

Have you ever pondered what life would look like through someone else's eyes? Robert Frost allows you to experience his view of life in New England. Although if you ever to claim this to his face he would disagree. Mr. Frost claimed that his poems were diverse and relatable to people all around the world. Although this may or may not be true, I shall let you decide.

Upon reading this poem I was not sure what it was going to be about. Thru my first read I still didn’t really understand what happened during the poem. With the use of older grammar and dialogue I was a little lost and had to read the poem a couple times to really understand what happened in the poem. What a story that Frost told in such a short poem with the setting being on a small country farm in New England. He does a great job of sharing what is going on and the environment. His use of great personification allows and really connects with the readers so they can see what is going to happen next. He gives the saw almost human like emotions, sounds and actions to make the story interesting in explaining what is about to happen to this

In the early 1920s Robert Lee Frost wrote one of his most intriguing poems, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” in 1922 which was later published in 1923. The poem, simply put, being about a man walking through the woods on a snowy evening admiring the surroundings. However, at a closer look, Frost’s poem is a lot more meaningful than just a story about a patch of snow on some bark, it is a story about nature and isolation. It involves a lot of emotions, themes, symbols, and unique writing styles that make it one of Frost’s most galvanizing

When we think of Robert Frost, we think of New England. Most of Robert Frost’s poems are based in New England. He used the scenery and nature of England in many of his poems, but he wasn’t actually from New England. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. He was born on March 28th, 1874. He spent most of his childhood in San Francisco and eventually moved to New England when his father died. His father was a teacher and an alcoholic as Frost was growing up. Another thing we think of when we think of Robert Frost is how the nature is used in his poems. Robert Frost gives nature more character and more feelings in his poems. It isn’t just used as a background to

Poetry is a literary medium which often resonates with the responder on a personal level, through the subject matter of the poem, and the techniques used to portray this. Robert Frost utilises many techniques to convey his respect for nature, which consequently makes much of his poetry relevant to the everyday person. The poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and “The mending wall” strongly illuminate Frost’s reverence to nature and deal with such matter that allows Frost to speak to ordinary people.

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

Robert Frost’s nature poetry occupies a significant place in the poetic arts; however, it is likely Frost’s use of nature is the most misunderstood aspect of his poetry. While nature is always present in Frost’s writing, it is primarily used in a “pastoral sense” (Lynen 1). This makes sense as Frost did consider himself to be a shepherd.