Mending Wall is a true Robert Frost poem which analyses the nature of human relationships. Reading the poem feels exactly like peeling an onion. The reader analyses, philosophizes and goes deep inside in search of a definite conclusion which he fails to find. Yet the quest is more rewarding and thrilling than the holy grail itself. The reader awakens to a new understanding of life which defies all definitions.
The poem begins in an arresting dramatic way, taking the reader to the nature of things. The narrator says that there is something in nature that doesn’t love a wall. All man-made walls get destroyed, either by nature or by the work of hunters. So when the spring season comes, he informs his neighbor and they begin to mend the wall that separates their properties.
During this mending, the narrator thinks of the utter foolishness of this activity. In fact there is no need of a wall between them. He has only apple trees and his neighbor has pine. His apple trees would never cross the border and eat up the pine cones. Moreover, they do not have cows. So there is no possibility of causing offence to the other.
The narrator wants to put this notion to his neighbor’s head. But like a stone-headed savage, he only repeats his father’s saying, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Mending Wall is a true Robert Frost poem which analyses the nature of human relationships. Reading the poem feels exactly like peeling an onion. The reader analyses, philosophizes and goes deep inside in search of a definite conclusion which he fails to find. Yet the quest is more rewarding and thrilling than the holy grail itself. The reader awakens to a new understanding of life which defies all definitions.The poem begins in an arresting dramatic way, taking the reader to the nature of things. The narrator says that there is something in nature that doesn’t love a wall. All man-made walls get destroyed, either by nature or by the work of hunters. So when the spring season comes, he informs his neighbor and they begin to mend the wall that separates their properties.During this mending, the narrator thinks of the utter foolishness of this activity. In fact there is no need of a wall between them. He has only apple trees and his neighbor has pine. His apple trees would never cross the border and eat up the pine cones. Moreover, they do not have cows. So there is no possibility of causing offence to the other.The narrator wants to put this notion to his neighbor’s head. But like a stone-headed savage, he only repeats his father’s saying, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
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