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Mending Wall
In Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall," the speaker considers the idea of the wall in his yard and wonders why it is necessary. He prefers that there is no wall between he and his neighbor so they...
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Mending Wall
The literal function of the wall referenced in the title of "The Mending Wall" by Robert Frost is to mark the line dividing the property between the narrator and his neighbor, and so it's literal...
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"Something there is that doesn't love a wall..." The first line of the poem, which the poet later considers repeating to his neighbor, expresses his sense of unease about the wall between them. If...
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There are two basic ways to interpret the primary subject of “Mending Wall.” One is more literal, and the other is more conceptual or abstract. The first line of possible interpretation stays...
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Through this poem's narrator, Frost, a native New Englander, ruminates on the nature of fences in life, beginning with the springtime ritual by two New England farmers to repair the stone wall that...
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Mending Wall
Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall," was first published in 1914. The setting is rather vague and seems confined to the immediate areas either side of the same portion of the eponymous wall. The...
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The narrator talks about all the various ways the wall between his property and his neighbor's sustains damage: the season itself with its freezes and thaws, and the hunters who come through their...
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In "The Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, the narrator has an apple orchard on his property, and the neighbor has a pine forest. The narrator jokes to the neighbor that the apples aren't likely to eat...
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The narrator and his neighbor have a disagreement about the importance of mending the wall between their properties. The narrator thinks that mending the wall every year is silly. They have no...
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Start by asking your instructor for any requirements that need to be included in your assignment. If specific techniques or forms of construction need to be addressed, be certain to cover those...
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In using this particular phrasing, the poet is presenting a speaker who objectifies their own interpretation of a situation. The line is memorable in part because of the combination of...
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In addition to love and tolerance, mutual respect is required for harmonious living. Love can sometimes manifest in a draining way. For instance, you can love someone so much that you want to be...
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The speaker of a poem is referred to as the persona. Although as readers we often imagine a poem to be narrated by the author himself, that is not always the case. In The Mending Wall, Robert...
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A metaphor is a comparison that does notuse the words "like" or "as." For example, if I say that a little girl "is a doll," I don't mean that she is actually a doll; rather, I am comparingher...
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In this poem, there are several examples which support that people continue with customs just for the sake of doing so. First, the speaker notes that the wall they meet to repair isn't a...
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If they exist, you can find similes in the poem (or in any piece of text) by skimming for the words "like" or "as," or looking for places where the speaker is comparing one thing to another thing....
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The wall between the neighbors' farms doesn't seem to serve a practical purpose, and the narrator tells us why in the poem. In the poem, the narrator discusses how he meets with his neighbor every...
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In "Mending Wall," it takes the narrator and his neighbor a day to mend the wall between their properties. We know this, because the narrator states: And on a day we meet to walk the line And set...
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The speaker of the poem describes the myriad reasons he has to come out and repair the stone wall between his own and his neighbor's property, even though he does not actually like the wall or feel...
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If I were writing such a paper I would choose Frost's famous poem "The Road Not Taken." In that poem he had to make a career choice. We know he chose to live a simple, austere life as a New England...
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The speaker does not like walls because he doesn’t feel that they are needed, but his neighbor prefers him. When the speaker says, “Something there is that doesn't love a wall” (line 1), he...
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In Robert Frost's poem "The Mending Wall" the speaker describes a stone wall that exists between his property and his neighbor's. We learn that the two of them annually walk along its length in the...
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I am going to assume that this question is referring to the Robert Frost poem "Mending Wall." The narrator of the poem is the person that initiates the mending of the wall. When the poem begins,...
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The speaker in the poem is a thoughtful man, hard-working, practical, and discerning. As he works with his neighbour to repair the wall dividing their property, he questions the necessity of even...
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In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," first published in 1914, the farmers represent individuals, groups, societies, or anything subject to a division or boundary. The wall represents those boundaries...
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I would describe the speaker's personality as playful and humorous. He is being facetious in his response to his own statement: Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I...
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Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall," focuses on the relationship between two neighbors. Every year, the two neighbors meet to repair a wall that exists between their two farms. The speaker of the...
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Mending Wall
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is about two different outlooks on life and relationships. The neighbors, one of whom is the speaker, meet each spring to mend the stone wall between their properties....
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The correct answer to this question is "A." The narrator says he would want to know, What I was walling in or out, And to whom I was like to give offense (lines 33-34). The idea here is that...
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We know that the two farmers in the poem are walking along either side of the wall which divides their two properties, putting it to rights. The narrator is unsure of what exactly they are walling...
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Well done for identifying the deliberate ambiguity of the central image of the wall. Of course, this ambiguity is created in part thanks to the other word of the title, "mending," which is used as...
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Any wall has two sides, and there is a kind of wall between parents and children that each helps create and reinforce, particularly in adolescence. This wall is a barrier that serves to not allow...
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Both the narrator and the neighbor are rural property owners, responsible for maintaining their land as needed for the use to which each has designated it. Both engage in the shared rebuilding of...
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The practical purpose of the wall is to serve as a divider between the properties. The speaker points out that walls are normally used to keep livestock enclosed. Since neither of the neighbors...
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In Frost's poem "Mending Wall," the speaker says that nature does not love a stone wall and will gradually tear it down. Ice creates gaps in the stones and the unfreezing topples them from the...
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Definitely. I think you need to be aware of the way that Frost presents the ambiguity over the wall. The speaker is very open about his distaste for walls, saying that he doesn't love them and he...
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Setting aside the ambiguity of the term “message,” the poem seems to discuss the contrasts between tradition and new thinking, between habit and modern adjustments to tradition. Frost, who was...
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To determine the speaker’s tone in Robert Frost’s "Mending Wall," it is best to examine the diction (word choice) and imagery (sensory language). "Doesn’t love," "spills," and "gaps" in the...
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As with most of Robert Frost’s poems, “Mending Wall” can be interpreted both on a literal level and a deeper, symbolic level. On the literal level, the speaker and the neighbor meet for the...
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Here is an example of each literary technique mentioned: Tone: The poet's tone is lightly critical. To show the lightness of the tone, the poet refers to the repairing of the wall as "oh, just...
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Frost's poem "Mending Wall" is a contemplative journey through Frost's thoughts as he ponders what purpose the stone wall between him and his neighbor really serves. Personally, he doesn't really...
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Assonance, consonance and alliteration are all literary devices based upon sound, and used most often in poetry—they are what gives poetry a "musical, lilting" feel. All of these devices are...
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Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" is a poem that questions traditions. One neighbor is in favor of having a wall between their property simply because it's traditional, whereas the other neighbor...
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To me, out of the lines you mention, the following lines are expressing one idea while the rest of them are on a different topic altogether. We have to use a spell to make them balance: “Stay...
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The main idea behind a lot of Frost's poem "Mending Wall" is that Frost really doesn't see the use of fences between neighbors. He feels that if they are neighbors, friends, and kind to one...
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When the speaker and his neighbor begin the yearly ritual of repairing the wall, it seems to be just that - an annual replacing of the rocks that have fallen away or been removed in the past year....
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Both the speaker and the neighbor agree on the benefit of the wall. They both spend time repairing it. More than that, they repair it together. The speaker, however, does question why exactly...
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I believe that Frost is saying there is a place for a fence. There are cows to keep in, but I believe that Frost or the speaker of the poem is not necessarily in favor of the fence between his...
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When examining connotative language in any poem, it is essential to delve into the use of language as trying to convey something beyond dictionary meaning. Connotative language enables the poet to...
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The title of "Mending Wall" is ambiguous because it has two potential meanings. A reader isn't sure if "mending wall" is a noun or an action. "Mending" could be functioning as an adjective that...
