Poetry Response- Mending Wall, by Robert Frost Every year, two neighbors meet to repair the stone wall that divides their property. The narrator is skeptical of this tradition, unable to understand the need for a wall when there is no livestock to be contained on the property, only apples and pine trees. He does not believe that a wall should exist simply for the sake of existing. He cannot help but notice that the natural world seems to dislike the wall as much as he does: mysterious gaps appear, boulders fall for no reason. The neighbor, on the other hand, asserts that the wall is crucial to maintaining their relationship, asserting, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Over the course of the mending, the narrator attempts to convince his neighbor otherwise and accuses him of being old-fashioned for maintaining the tradition so strictly.
Peter Weir has managed to explore the conflicting values between two cultures through the distinction of John Book, a member of the English society, throughout the barn raising scene. The use of colour distinguishes John Book from the rest of the Amish, as he is part of the minority group wearing the ‘white’ shirt. The colour white symbolizes John’s newness to the concept of raising a barn. The Amish are a united community who continually work together to achieve a goal, without separation. Book is briefly accepted by the Amish community during the barn raising scene and is the only time within the film that he is the same as the Amish men.
The soldiers from city of Gup communicate well with each other during the war, and win at the end of the war. Secondly, the reason why one must defend literature against tyranny is that literature has the ability to reveal the truth people have fail to see. "He believes that storytelling is our chief means of explaining the world to one another and ourselves, and the principal way we form intelligence. It is essential to human cognition. Stories teach the brain how to work."
'Mending Wall' is an interesting poem that is symbolic of the differences in human thinking on barriers Robert Frost is known to make use of nature and pathetic fallacies in his poems and a lot of symbolism that leaves the reader to imagine what he really means,making his poems highly subjective. In this piece, Frost has used words and phrases that we could draw parallels with,he uses a sense of underlying meanings with these phrases. In the title itself, ‘Mending wall’ the poet lets us know that the poem is about a wall or a fence,but later the reader realizes that it’s more than just the words on the surface that Frost wants us to recognize. The poet refers to the wall as a solid object but also a psychological or invisible wall,this wall signifies the differences between the two neighbors. Ironically,when the wall is actually supposed to separate two beings,this wall reunites the two neighbors ,this is seen in the title ‘Mending wall’,where one might suggest that this is grammatically incorrect, what Frost might actually be intending is that the poem is more about the wall mending the relationship between the two individuals than the two merely mending the wall itself !This wall maybe built due to differences in thoughts and ideas or merely just because of social awkwardness of the two characters.
Kaitlin Villaverde Mrs. Bradford English 11 30 September 2014 Poetry Explication Mending Wall This poem is about a soaring wall which parts one thing from another leaving the on of the neighbors inside wondering about the possibilities of freedom if the wall was to be absent yet, and the benefits there of. “And on that day we meet to walk the line”(13).The wall is ironic because, even though it separates the speaker from his neighbor, it also brings them together every year. “And set the wall between us once again” (14). This quote reflects the feeling of how are protagonists is sighing in frustration from having this division between him and his neighbor. As stated,there is an ironic twist at hand.
In Hinduism, the cow (Sanskrit: go) is revered as the source of food and symbol of life and may never be killed. Hindus do not worship the cow, however, and cows do not have especially charmed lives in India. It is more accurate to say the cow is taboo in Hinduism, rather than sacred. History of the "Sacred" Cow In ancient India, oxen and bulls were sacrificed to the gods and their meat was eaten. But even then the slaughter of milk-producing cows was prohibited.
The Sumerians seem to be inquisitive by nature. My guide expressed the ziggurats were always restored with fresh mud bricks every couple of years because the rain and the flooding of the two rivers would erode the mud bricks on the structure. I asked my guide what was the purpose of the ziggurat, he explained that the people believed that the gods lived on the mountain tops, this is why the ziggurat were created with a mountain effect and the lower levels were covered with dirt and planted with trees (Benton & DiYanni, 2008). I observed how the temple was dressed with fine carved images, not seen in our modern day observance of the ziggurat of King Urnammu, but its seems the King dedicated the ziggurat in honor of Nanna. As I took measurements of the temple I noticed it was 210 feet in length and 150 feet in width and over 100 feet in height.
For example the first stanza starts of by telling us that they the homeless, though there are millions of people in the city who have some kind of home but the refugees have nowhere to go. The phrase ‘yet there is no place for us my dear’ suggests how they view society as unfair in the way that it treats people. The poem then moves on to talk about how they cannot even leave the country due them not having a passport and the poem describes people in that position as ‘officially dead’ suggesting they have absolutely nowhere or no-one to turn to. Though the poet describes the committee advice as ‘polite’ the fact that they were asked to return ‘next year’ clearly presents the fact that no real help was offered and that they were still left with nowhere to go for today. The poet also uses many contrasts throughout the piece such as ‘ten million souls’, ‘ten thousand soldiers’.
The poem Mending Wall, by Robert Frost, covers a tale of the persona and his neighbour who seem to constantly be rebuilding walls between themselves despite nature’s tireless efforts to persistently break them down. Written in 1914 during the First World War, The poem is quite ambiguous in its true meaning, as most of Frost’s poems where, with its iambic pentameter, anecdotal qualities and conversational tone. Within the first few lines of the poem, we are given quite a detailed description of nature and its implications upon this so called wall. The poem starts off with the phrase; “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” were the persona is personifying the wall, giving it the ability to experience a love which does not exist which is represented by a love heart being destroyed in the first few seconds of the representation. The use of repetition of the word “and” is also used to emphasise the amount of disturbance nature seems to place upon the wall, exaggerating the extent nature is supposedly going to, to physically destroy this wall: “That sends the frozen-ground well under it, AND spills the upper boulder sin the sun AND makes gaps even two can pass abreast.” This is shown through the images of walls continuously being built by harvesters, followed by images of broken walls eroded by nature in the representation.
• “Not one stone on a stone” => damage inflicted to the wall, increased by “seen them made”, “heard them made” => parallel. • Nature has overwhelming power, which men cannot control. • The persona and the neighbour rebuild the wall just like every year at spring: “at spring mending-time […] once again”. => mending the wall is something that they have already done, it is a cycle, something they do regularly. Spring => rebirth => rebuilding the wall.