The two techniques used in this poem are the metaphorical and visual which, put together, forms the boundary between them. The visual imagery set into the poem is of the wall, "that sends the frozen-ground under it, and spills the upper boulder in the sun" that sentance makes up the image of the wall falling down which makes them come together to mend it. The metaphorical technique used is that the two farmers come together to fix this wall that keeps falling down although that is that reason that they are kept apart.
The poem is set in 1st person and is personal/sub-objective. There are two sides to the poem; one wants to help his property and keep out all the animals and the narrator wants to get rid of the wall and to form a friendship with this person.
By Isabel Hurley
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