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Mending Wall
“Mending Wall” begins with statements about walls, presented in third person. The perspective switches in Line 6 to a first-person speaker who explains their habit of coordinating wall repairs with...
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The writer of the Masterplots commentary on the poem notes that the theme of the poem is barriers. To a great extent, that is correct. The action described is that of the speaker and his neighbor...
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The title of "Mending Wall" is significant because it has two meanings, one literal and the other figurative. This adds a deliberate sense of ambiguity to the title. The poem's speaker and his...
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Mending Wall
"Mending Wall" is a wonderful poem by Robert Frost, and I think it accurately highlights a fairly stereotypical relationship that exists between most neighbors that are separated by a wall or...
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Mending Wall
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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There are multiple figures of speech (or literary/poetic devices) used in Robert Frost's poem "Mending Walls." Alliteration- Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound within a line of...
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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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Hi, Anurudha! Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is written in blank verse, which is unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter. The scheme is five pairs of syllables per line, unstressed followed by stressed....
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The speaker of Robert Frost's “Mending Wall” recounts his annual experience with his neighbor as they meet to repair the wall that separates their respective properties. The speaker expresses some...
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Literally, the wall functions as a dividing line between the adjoining properties owned by the two men who together mend it every year. It is meant to keep one farmer's livestock from wandering...
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A couple of neighbors out in the country are going through the annual ritual of mending the wall that divides their land. Every spring, the two men walk the full length of the wall together and...
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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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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 first...
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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 very...
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In Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," the neighbor twice says, "Good fences make good neighbors." In the poem, the speaker and the neighbor meet to repair the wall between their properties. The...
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In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” the speaker begins by observing that nature itself seems to want to bring down the wall. Both frost and sunlight attack it to the point where it needs to be...
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The most important lines illustrating the speaker's skepticism over the necessity of this annual ritual are the following: Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little...
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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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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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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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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 is...
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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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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...
