The Mending Wall

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McConnell 1 Vitoria McConnell Mrs. Dean English 11b February 12, 2014 Mending Wall Analysis In the poem “Mending Wall,” says that people will have a better relationship if they have boundaries. Robert Frost is the writer of the poem “Mending Wall.” In the poem he is basically telling the readers that people get along better when there are boundaries. So in “Mending Wall” he thinks there should be a wall in between the two neighbors so there will be a boundary. People will have a better relationship when they have boundaries. When he neighbor says “Good fences make good neighbors” He is trying to say that people distance themselves from relationships to make them stronger. The speaker is unconvinced that they need a wall because there are no cows to be contained. McConnell 2 People will get along better if they have their own space. Both the neighbor and the speaker mend the wall whenever a stone falls out, even though the speaker does not see it necessary to have the wall. The sentence “Makes gaps even two can pass abreast.” Is saying that they should put away their differences and walk side by side instead of having a wall in between them. People get along better if they have a boundary. The speaker thinks that the neighbor is very foolish for thinking that there needs to be a wall between them. He says that he is “Like an old-stone savage armed.” The speaker does not understand why the neighbor wants the wall. I think that the emotions between to two people create the gaps in the wall. The speaker informs the neighbor of that and they mend the wall. McConnell 3 In this poem even though to speaker does not think there
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