"It comes to little more:.
There where it is we do not need the wall:.
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across.
And eat the cones under his pines".
He does not believe in walls for the sake of walls. The neighbor resorts to an old proverb: "Good fences make good neighbors." The speaker remains unconvinced and mischievously presses the neighbor to look beyond the old-fashioned folly of such reasoning. His neighbor will not be swayed. The speaker envisions his neighbor as a leftover from a justifiably old-fashioned era, a living example of a dark-age mentality. But the neighbor simply repeats the proverb.
The image at the heart of Mending Wall is interesting: two men meeting on terms of civility and neighborliness to build a barrier between them. They do so out of tradition, out of habit. Yet the very earth conspires against them and makes their task Sisyphean. Sisyphus is the figure in Greek mythology condemned continually to push a boulder up a hill, only to have the boulder roll down again. These men push boulders back on top of the wall; yet just as inevitably, whether at the hand of hunters or sprites, or the frost and work of nature's invisible hand, the boulders tumble down again. Still, the neighbors persist. The poem, thus, seems to meditate conventionally on three grand themes: barrier-building, the predestined nature of this activity, and our persistence in this activity regardless. .
The speaker may scorn his neighbor's obstinate wall-building, may observe the activity with humorous detachment, but he himself goes to the wall at all times of the year to mend the damage done by hunters; it is the speaker who contacts the neighbor at wall-mending time to set the annual appointment. The speaker says he sees no need for a wall here, but this may imply that there may be a need for a wall elsewhere, "where there are cows," for example. Yet the speaker must derive something, some use, some satisfaction, out of the exercise of wall-building, or why would he initiate it here? There is something in him that does love a wall, or at least the act of making a wall.
In "Desert Places" Frost uses nature to mirror the feelings of man. ... Frost suggests that internal loneliness is much more frightening than external loneliness. In "Design," Frost is less in awe of nature and, instead, fearful of it. ... Here Frost uses white as a mass for evil. ... Frost uses nature to mirror isolation and aloneness of man. ...
Robert Frost Robert Frost the famous poet has written many poems that often have many common characteristics that work to give his poems several common themes. Two of these themes that Frost often uses is the use of setting through nature. ... Frost's use of setting in his poetry has labeled Frost as a nature poet. In fact Frost is often considered one of America's best example of a nature poet. ... (Greiner 210) Another of Frost's most famous poems is "The Road Not Taken." ...
Robert Frost's love of nature is expressed in the setting of his poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." ... Frost explains the setting so descriptively that the reader feels he is in the woods also The setting is a very important tool Frost uses in writing this poem. ... Frost does not ever tell what business the speaker is on, but you can assume it may be very stressful. ... The speaker knows he can not stay in this "paradise".(14) The speaker does not want to leave this spot, but he has made other promises that he has to keep. (14) I believe Frost uses repetition of the las...
The Similarities in the Works Created By Robert Frost Poet, Robert Frost, uses a variety of vivid descriptions to portray the images in most of his works. ... The tone of most Frost poems is very tranquil. ... Nature is an obvious observation when reading Frost's work. ... Frost sets up "The Silken Tent" in a beautiful setting. ... Frost utilizes many symbols to depict the actual meaning of his objects. ...
Analysis of Frosts Neither Out Far nor In Deep Robert Frost, in his poem Neither Out Far nor In Deep, demonstrates the futility of humanity as it longs for that which it can neither own nor understand. ... Primarily, Frost uses an iambic rhythm, although it is by no means steady. ... Through the use of this tone, Frost could more readily reach his readers. ... Frost describes in the second stanza what the people view in the sea. ... Frost hints in the third stanza at a possible object of the search of these people. ...
On Robert Frost Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. ... Robert Frost focuses his poetry on his experiences of life. ... Frosts" poems are tricky out of a mischievous sense of delight". ... In "Fire and Ice"(1110), Frost compares and contrasts two destructive forces. ... Frost also makes known the destructive force of ice, comparing ice to hate. ...
Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874 and died in Boston, January 29, 1963. ... This can also be said of Frost using different diction. ... The path symbolizes an extreamly hard choice in Frost's life. Each path is meaningful to frost. ... Frost's "difference" (The Road not Taken ln20) was always in him. ...
That signifies the poetry of Robert Frost. ... Reluctance, a poem that appears in Frost's first book A Boy's Will (1913), talks about the preparation that Frost underwent as a writer. All of Frost's works have a level of duplicity, not to be mistaken by ambiguity, which is not the case. ... For there's not a clime But at any cost Will take that time For a night of frost." ... A third example of Synecdoche is Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." ...
Introduction- Good afternoon, today my speech will be on the American poet Robert Frost one of America's leading 20th-century poets. Robert Frost- Robert Frost was born on March 26th 1874 in San Francisco, California. ... They had a daughter and most loved by Frost Marjorie and a son Carol. Schooling- Robert Frost attended many schools in his lifetime. ... Other Jobs- Robert Frost worked at other various jobs; most of these were as teachers. ...
