Interpretation of Poem One - "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost

Sunday, March 14, 2010

"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.

In the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, there are physical, moral and mental boundaries between the men. The wall between the men, acts as a physical boundary, dividing their property.
A language technique used in the poem is a simile.

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
The persona is comparing the traditional farmer to a perhistoric cave-man.
The use of visual imagery is used to describe the destruction of the wall.
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
And spills the upper boulder in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

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