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Transcript of Mending wall by robert frost
ENGLISH CHAPTER ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC : MENDING WALL
BY-ROBERT FROST
ABOUT THE POETNAME ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-
1963)
COUNTRY USA , SAN FRANCISCO
OCCUPATION POET, PLAYWRIGHT
NOTABLE WORK(S) A BOY’S WILL, NORTH OF BOSTON
ACHIVEMENTS PULITZER PRIZES (1924,31,37,43)
Sharon Olds, , won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for
“Stag’s Leap.”
President John F. Kennedy once says of Frost, "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding."
Relevant BackgroundRobert Frost lived most of his life on a farm on the
eastern side of America.
Frost wrote Mending Wall while he was living in England just before World War One He used the poem to remind himself of his home in America.
He liked to use language as it is actually spoken.
He is a poet of deep thoughts. Behind his descriptions you can find spiritual meaning.
He wrote the poem in such a way that it could either be about his relationship with his neighbour or about relationships with any one anywhere.
OUTLINE OF THE POEM
The poem is set in the countryside in spring.
Forty-five-line poem - one verse paragraph - No stanzas
The use of ‘I’ makes it more like a monologue, a one-person dramatic speech.
Frost describes the border between two farms/people
Explores stubbornness in a conservative farmer who blindly follows tradition.
On a deeper level, Mending Wall examines how humans deal with each other and live isolated lives.
THEME 1. A respectful distance between neighbors is the
recipe for harmonious relationships: ‘Good fences make good neighbors’
2. Co-operation between neighbors:‘I let my neighbour know beyond the hill’.
3. The futility of a country custom:‘Oh, just another kind of outdoor game’.
“Something” is a wishy-washy word, and just about anything under the sun can qualify as "something." Even a person.
By using “something” instead of “someone,” our speaker suggests that humans are not the only wall-destroying culprits around; there are things out there as well.
Line 1Something there is that doesn't love
a wall,
Man builds walls
Nature destroys the
barrier
Repairs it out of tradition and habit
CAUSES
NATURAL
MAN-MADE
BOULDERS
LOAVES OF
BREAD
TENNIS
BALLS
WALL
MENTAL PHYSICAL
THE WALL
SEPERATES THE TWO
BONDS THEM
TOGETHER
POSITIVE
Brings the both together
Opportunity to interact
NEGATIVE
No real necessity
Primitive or traditional act
Literary Devices• The title, ‘Mending Wall’ itself is an Irony as
well as a Pun-Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
• Situational Irony, perhaps
• A pun: words with different possible meanings or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings
• “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”- Contradictory lines to the title with a thought process
• The word ‘Something’ is used Metaphorically:-Nature (when Poet talks about nature making Earth very cold but boulders make a lot of gap after heating it up, where two can pass easily)-Human (when he talks about people’s presence by giving the example of hunter hunting a rabbit for a yelping dog than themselves)-Supernatural power (He mentions elves taking the wall down as Elves are considered to dislike walls)
• Time- ‘at spring mending-time’ highlights the time when the neighbour and Poet came out to mend their wall.
• SymbolismA character, an action, a setting, or an object representing something else can be a symbol.The ‘Wall’ also symbolizes boundaries and differences between the two “and set the wall between us again”
• PersonificationIt refers to the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.“Apple orchard”“Pine” “My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines.”
• “Good fences make good neighbours”Another contradictory lines with a thought process.
• Pun: Another pun used here in the poem in “offence” = used as ‘a fence’
• Repetition: “Something there is that doesn’t like wall”
“Good fences make good neighbours”
SUMMARY
The stone wall separates the speaker’s property from his neighbor’s
In spring, the two meet to walk the wall and jointly make repairs
The speaker sees no reason for the wall to be kept –there are no cows to be contained, just apple and pine trees
He tries to influence his neighbor’s thinking
The neighbor resorts to an old saying “Good fences make good neighbors”
SHUBHAM SHEKAR INTRODUCTION
NANDA KISHORE POEM IN DETAIL
GOKUL SUMMARY OF THE POEM (absent)
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