English Mending Wall

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MENDING WALL The poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost Is a blank verse with a iambic pentameter. The poem is about a wall that separates the speaker and the neighbour. The wall plays a very powerful part in the poem because it powerfully conveys the separation of the speaker and the neighbour. Every time the wall is damaged a little and the speaker and the neighbour get a step closer to becoming united the neighbour “mends” which means repair, the wall. The poem has no stanzas so the form of the poem is already very similar to a wall. The poem also has gaps at the end of the lines which could then be interpreted as a damaged and broken wall. The form connects with the title and the purpose of the poem making the broken wall a more powerful aspect of the poem. The wall separates the speaker and the neighbour, however the wall is repeatedly damaged by nature (lines 1-4).From this we could imply that in fact nature does not want the speaker and the neighbour to be apart but instead they want them to be connected. The wall is also destroyed by rabbits that dig in the ground under the wall. The dogs that chase the rabbits destroy the wall (lines 8-9). This conveys that the neighbour mending the wall is in fact going against what nature wants, the wall destroyed. In line 17 at the beginning of the line it says “to each” and at the end of the line it repeats “to each”. This could also be seen as a form of separation, making the separation between the speaker and the neighbour more powerful. Line 18 in the poem contains one extra syllable, this syllable is placed on the word balanced. This extra syllable could therefore indicate that the wall can only be maintained if mended from both sides. So by putting this extra syllable you are actually showing that in fact the speaker that does not want the wall however does help maintain balance. The wall plays a big aspect in
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