The Mending 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.

“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, the fifty-six line lyric poem gives off a sarcastic tone that expresses impatience with his neighbor and the “wall.” The poem focuses on a theme of separation, the necessity of boundaries and the illusory arguments used to annihilate them.

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

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

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.

Before the wall was made the location of the wall would change down to the Cambrian coast, and would build south. Forts were built for every 7 ⅓ miles, and 3 gates with two entrances were built as well. Because of this it was more of an ease for transportation. More forts were added to the south, also a central ditch was created with causeways. The purpose of this was to most likely protect the rear of the frontier zone Also with the additions of forts the wall got narrowed by 8 feet.

You listen to your parents right? You believe most of the things they tell you because they are the ones who are trying to guide you in the right direction. Well while most of the things they tell you are good they may tell you some things that may not be the right way to look at things.

Today we look at the temple that existed in Christ's day, and the remaining wall.

Though tradition is what makes a person unique, opposing to change in the tradition prevents higher potential and evolution. Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” concerns two neighbors who have an annual ritual of repairing their wall which separates them. The narrator shows his reluctance and questioning of the wall’s purpose while the neighbor continuously uses the phrase: “Good fences make good neighbors” (line 27). The neighbor’s opposition to change perspectives represents what can happen when one constantly follows tradition without understanding its basis. The poem’s symbolism, irony, and structure displays two neighbors’ separation from one another and its representation that blindly following tradition is unnatural.

People keep an emotional distance between one another to prevent others from getting too close to them. Robert Frost in the poem “Mending Wall” shows the reader an example of two different kinds of people. One kind of person is open to the idea of friendship and is willing to make an effort to try to dissolve any conflict, and try to get along with someone else anyway possible. Then there is the other side which is against the idea of change, someone who is closed to the idea of something new and against breaking down social barriers. Yet both sides seem to find their common ground meeting at the wall.

Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” is a poem where Frost is skeptical over his neighbor’s belief that “Good fences make good neighbors.” The dispute between Frost and his neighbor is about whether or not they need a barrier such as a fence between them in order to be good neighbors. According to Frost, there is no reason for a fence because if it is built in a house “where there are cows” that need to be protected and kept from escaping, a fence is necessary. However, “[in both Frost’s and his neighbor’s homes] there are no cows” and therefore a fence serves no purpose. I think there are different reasons for people to build fences between neighbors. For example, people build fences for privacy, protection or even cosmetics. However, in reality

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