Robert Frost's "Mending Wall".

I find this poesy to be easily read on a variety of trains, first, of course, being a literal level with two populates mending the wall between the two. Good fences brand good neighbors, (line 27) according to the mans father. The quote is a reference to the mans softness to be an individual, and his inability to move past his fathers beliefs and thoughts, and gain his own. The neighbor is the one with the desire to maintain the wall between their properties; however, it doesnt break through that the narrator puts up much of an argument. I believe, the narrators main and well-nigh important point is Before I built a wall Id ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out,/And to whom I was like to give offense. (lines 32-34). The narrator makes a enormous emphasis as to the actual point of the wall; however, the perplexity is, is he speaking of a physical wall or a wall within us?

I believe the poem to be most effective when referring to putting up an sexual wall, a defense against anything or anyone getting in (into your heart, into your trust, etc.). The neighbor is called an old-stone savage... (line 40). By the end of the poem, it has moved into a much darker connotation.



hoar brings in words like elves, old-stone, savage, darkness, etc, which gives the reader a to a greater extent down trodden feeling towards the neighbor and the wall. I believe that it makes the neighbor easier to identify with and possibly in time sympathize with. The neighbor clear even be seen as becoming menacing even though he has been the one to protect his boundaries by go on to mend the wall.

However, after close analysis of the poem, the reader determines that it is the narrator and...

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