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

Monday, March 8, 2010

"Mending Wall," by Robert Frost

Mending Wall consists of mental and physical boundaries. The persona uses exaggeration to share his annoyance of the useless wall. Pathetic fallacy is also used:
"Spring is the mischief in me and i wonder
If I could put notion on his head"
The persona speaks in a subjective but sarcastic tone. Visual imagery is used to refer to the destruction of the wall. A simile is also used:
"Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old stone savage armed"
By Breanna Considine

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