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Mending Wall
From the opening lines of this poem, Frost establishes that walls must be actively maintained or else they will erode away. People willingly devote their labor to this, but why? The reader is...
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Mending Wall
That is an interesting question to ask. In this context, I am interpreting "philosophical" to mean some timeless and universal meanings for Frost's "Mending Wall." The two that I take away after...
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Robert Frost
Walls are generally built to protect and secure. They are there to either keep out what is bad or unwanted, or to keep in what is valuable and important. Ironically, though, it seems that the wall...
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Mending Wall
In the poem, the speaker is unhappy about the gaps; the reason for this is that, once the gaps are discovered, he and his neighbor must work together again to put up the wall that separates their...
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Literature
The poem tells of the annual walk of the narrator and his neighbor, as they put back the rocks that have fallen from the wall that marks their property line. Some stones have been dislodged by...
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Mending Wall
The narrator does not think that putting the wall back together is worth the effort because neither of them has animals. He thinks the only reason that they would have a wall between their farms...
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Mending Wall
Sometimes it's not a bad idea to look at a poem as a kind of mini-essay. In Frost's "Mending Wall," the narrator wants to make the point that the wall between himself and his neighbor benefits no...
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Mending Wall
In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," the speaker and the speaker's neighbor meet each year to mend a stone wall that separates their properties. Through the speaker, the reader learns the annual...
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Mending Wall
In the real stone wall, these gaps may appear in the spring, after natural frost-heaves from the ground move the rocks around and off the ledges. Stones may also be laid aside when hunters seek to...
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Mending Wall
In Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," the narrator is inspecting the stone wall on his property for damage. He writes that the hunters "have left not one stone on a stone," meaning that they have...
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Mending Wall
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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Mending Wall
Major SymbolsThe major symbols in "Mending Wall" are the stone wall and the "fences" spoken of by the neighboring farmer: "He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours.'" Each slightly different...
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Mending Wall
The speaker's land and his neighbor's land are separated by the differences in the trees: "He is all pine and I am apple orchard." If their lands are marked by this difference, the wall seems to be...
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Mending Wall
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...
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Mending Wall
The answer would be c)unnatural separations. In the poem, the speaker or narrator is perplexed at his neighbor's insistence on a wall. According to his neighbor, however, "good fences make good...
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Mending Wall
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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Mending Wall
In order to write an essay about "Mending Wall," you need to ask yourself what it is that you would like the reader to take away about this poem after reading your essay. This poem has a great...
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Mending Wall
The tone of this poem appears to be one of polite obligation and cooperation. The narrator and his neighbor walk along the stone wall that divides their properties. Both replace the stones that...
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Mending Wall
The speaker thinks that the wall is unnecessary because the border between the two properties is already obvious, and because there are no animals to be fenced in by the wall. In other words, the...
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Mending Wall
One of the great things about poetry is that it is intended to evoke a response from the reader, but each reader need not have an identical response. Thus, when discussing what something in a poem...
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Mending Wall
This question points out how the word "mending" in the title of the poem can be either a verb (something you do to a wall) or an adjective (something that describes or defines the wall). By...
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Mending Wall
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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Mending Wall
The speaker would prefer not to have the wall since they have to mend it every year and neither neighbor has livestock. The speaker does not like having the wall. He finds it inconvenient and kind...
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Mending Wall
Robert Frost's poem “Mending Wall” gives the reader the initial impression that the wall in question is a good thing, but it doesn't take long to see that the speaker does not really care for...
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Mending Wall
In the poem "Mending Wall," the speaker thinks that the long stone wall between his property and that of his neighbor's gets destroyed regularly by two things: 1. When it's springtime and the...
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Mending Wall
One of the most difficult things to do with poetry is to analyze its meter. In fact, meter is rarely even taught in high school anymore, and not many college classes concern themselves with it...
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Mending Wall
In general, when you say this phrase, you mean establishing boundaries between you and your neighbor helps you both know how to act and respect each other's space and privacy. For example, if you...
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Mending Wall
In the poem “Mending Wall,” Frost uses iambic pentameter with no rhyme scheme and a single continuous verse without separate stanzas as his form. With this pattern, he mirrors both the...
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Mending Wall
"Mending Wall" describes the old, low stone walls of New England that still often mark property lines. In the poem, the narrator and his neighbor walk the length of their dividing wall. Each one...
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Mending Wall
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
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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Mending Wall
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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Mending Wall
I would say that in this poem, the speaker is doing all three of these things, for the action described in the poem – the speaker and his neighbor rebuilding the wall that separates their...
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Mending Wall
There are positive and negative aspects to the wall and this adds to the complicated notion of the relationship between the two neighbors. Every spring, the two neighbors meet in order to repair...
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Mending Wall
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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Mending Wall
The narrator in Frost's "Mending Wall" describes in the very beginning of the poem two ways a stone wall can be broken. First, he refers to "something"(line 1), by which he is referring to weather...
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Mending Wall
The spring is the mischievous time of year because the gaps in the wall are found during spring. The poem is about two neighbors who have a wall between their land. They have an agreement to meet...
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Mending Wall
The speaker of this poem is a man who questions the importance of the walls we put up- both physical and emotional. He starts the poem with the contemplation, “Something there is that doesn’t...
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Mending Wall
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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Mending Wall
The erosion of the fence and the apple trees are personified. Personification is the description of something innate or not human as if it were a person. For example, there is some phantom force...
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Mending Wall
In Robert Frost's poem, Mending Wall, the speaker and his neighbor repair/rebuild the stone wall between their property in the spring of each year. The speaker of the poem ponders why they do this...
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Mending Wall
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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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
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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Robert Frost
In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," the neighbor thinks it is a good idea to have a fence marking off each man's property so they will definitively know where the borders of their properties lie....
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Mending Wall
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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Mending Wall
In Robert Frost's poem, "The Mending Wall," the speaker questions the need for a wall to stand between his own property and his neighbor's property. In the poem, the narrator jokes about the stones...
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Mending Wall
The reader never knows the inital reason why the wall was built, and that is the whole premise for the speaker asking his neighbor about the purpose of the wall. The speaker reasons, "Isn't it /...
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Mending Wall
The lines “something there is that doesn’t love a wall” and “good fences make good neighbors” are repeated. Repetition is used in poems to add emphasis and highlight significant themes....
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Mending Wall
Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall," is one of the representative of modern poetry, but not in the high-art sense of poets like T.S. Eliot. This is considered a poem because it tells a story with...