Poem Response: The Mending Wall

Introduction

Robert Lee Frost was a well-known American poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He has been highly respected for his naturalistic depictions of the rural life, and because of his mastery over the use of conversational speech in America. In this paper, his poem, “The Mending Wall,” is analyzed, and the concept of whether 'Good fences make good Neighbors' has been discussed.

Discussion

The poem “Mending Wall” is a very theatrical and narrative poem. The title of the poem is tellingly indistinct, because in the title of the poem, the word mending could be taken as an adjective or could be taken as a verb. When we consider the word mending as a verb, this word is describing the activities, which the speaker of the poem & his neighbor are performing when they are fixing the wall that is there in between their farms. If we take the word mending as an adjective, the word would indicate that the wall is playing a much more delicate role, as a mending wall, it is playing a part in maintaining a good relationship in between the two neighbors.

In this poem, both characters posses a line that is summarizing his own philosophy regarding the walls, and this thing has been repeated a number of times in the poem. The storyteller makes a claim that “Something there is that doesn't love a wall.” He wants others to have faith in the thing that there is the existence of thing, which is a witting drive or an entity in nature, which always breaks down the wall, which is on his property (George, 12). The narrator of the story also wants his neighbor to have faith in the idea that a very similar sort of thing can also be found in the nature of human beings. The narrator is seeing the season of spring both as the origin of the earth swelling, and believes that this phenomena is unsettling the wall, and he hopes that he would be able to make justifications of doing the same thing with the personality of neighbor, which is very much like a stone wall. From the perspective of the narrator, nevertheless, when his neighbor jumps away from talking about the fact that whether or not they have a requirement for the wall, the storyteller then describes his neighbor as an ominous beast, who likes in live in moral darkness, ...