On Robert Frost’s
Mending Wall
Robert
Frost’s “Mending Wall” is a very eccentric poem that, upon first being read, is
justified as two men coming together to fix a broken wall that separates their
property lines. Through the narrator’s eyes and mind, we can see that he
challenges the mere existence of the wall, while his neighbor’s opinion retains
only to the statement, “good Fences make good neighbors.” Using this quote that
the narrator’s neighbor learned from his father, we can get a deeper insight on
the poem’s true nature. Upon closer examination of each neighbor’s position on
the seasonal reparations, it is evident that the two have conflicting
mentalities about the task,
He
only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me,
and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his
head:
'Why do they make good
neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask
to know
What I was walling in or
walling out,
And to whom I was like to give
offence (27-35).
The task can also be transitioned
to how they …..
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