"Mending Wall" is considered to be one of Robert Frost's most famous poems and it was one of his first poems to become generally known. The wall in this poem is a symbol of the human relationship between the speaker and his neighbor. The neighbors have to meet every spring to mend the wall that has been worn by natural forces.
The wall is the expression of the emotional barrier that separates the speaker and his neighbor. In this situation the speaker wants to tear down this barrier while his neighbor wants to keep it up. It is ironic because though he does not want the fence up and he does not want to fix it, he reminds his neighbor every spring that they need to mend it. In lines 27 and again in line 45, the neighbor says, "Good fences make good neighbors." The speaker feels they do not.
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English: Alexander Blok's poem 'Noch, ulica, fonar...This is evident in lines 30-31 when the speaker says, "Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it where there are cows? But here there are no cows." He feels that wall isolates him or the person who has built it, holding them back from sharing their experiences and establishing intimacy with their neighbors. In line 33, the speaker wants to know what it was that he was "walling in or walling out", but he could not see what it was. This poem is written in iambic or blank verse. Frost makes an exception in the two lines where the neighbor says, "good fences make good neighbors". These lines are made to stand out because they contain an important message.
Some critics think that the wall symbolizes the space each one of us needs around us. The speaker does not seem to understand that and the neighbor does...
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As i was reading, i felt that the essay was bouncing all over the place. At one point, the author, while explainning the fact that Frost wanted to know what he was walling in and walling out, jumps to saying that "this poem is written in iambic or blank verse". The authors sentences are very short and lack detail. Sentences such as ". The speaker does not seem to understand that and the neighbor does not either, but it is what he was taught by his father" are poorely worded and sound like they were written scrambled together like eggs. In the next sentence, "Even though the fence separates them it also gives them a common possession and every spring they have to work together to fix it" the author forgets to include a comma after the first clause and has a run on sentence. Sentences such as "Most of the poem shows the respect he has for his neighbor, but lines 36-38 are a very good example of it" sound like they were written by an 7 year old. Again, i could bring up several instances where commas were missused, but i have a 10 page paper to write about robert frost and i hate the guy and people like this author make my life harder. I am a new member and luckily this is the first bad essay i have read.
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