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Andrew Hoellering (5/28/2009 9:07:00 AM)

The key line for understanding the poem is ³There where it is we do not need a wall´ as thisexplains Frost¶s attitude to it. It is superfluous to requirements, and Frost makes fun of it and

criticises the mind -set that led to it being built in the first place.

A wall is unnatural (lines to 4) and line 4 is ironic as Frost likes the idea of two being able towalk side by side.Hunters have caused the damage to the wall (line 5) and Frost and his neighbour meet to make

the necessary repairs. Nature is also against the wall (lines 9 and 10)You should now be able to illustrate Frost¶s attitude to the wall, citing the following lines in

which he makes fun of it by saying that the meeting too repair it is ³just another kind of out-door game.´

Other key lines for understanding the poem are ³He moves in darkness as it seems to me/Not of woods only and the shade of trees.´ What other kind of darkness is there?

Surely the darkness of ignorance, and here we come to the heart of the poem.The neighbour is a man who refuses to think for himself, ³who will not go behind his father¶s

saying.´ Here we are talking about racial prejudice, about anti- feminism, about fundamentalistreligion at its most intolerant ±about any blind belief that divides one human being from one

another.In other words, ³An old-stone savage armed´ is Frost¶s personification of the attitude of all

those who prefer prejudice to reason.

Hira Ali (7/31/2008 6:37:00 AM)

Fantastic, this is most favourite poem of mine. In very first line it is written that Something there

is that....so i think that this something is non living or elve or some fairy creature.The wallseperate both the neighbours from each other and in Spring season both repairs the wall.There is

no reason for keeping a wall as there are no cows or other animals. Both the neighbours followan old adage of 'good fences make good neighbours'may be these fences are necessary to be

good neighbours.In this poem, may be poet wants to raise a question that we are headingtowards destructive process? Many of Forster poem comments on creative process.On ground

level we can find discussion disruption duality of creativity.

Graeme Lindridge (6/5/2007 7:42:00 PM)

This a favorite poem of mine. Mostly, I don't like walls. However, I am glad to see there arewalls around prisons with the evildoers inside and so keep us safe on the outside. But with that

protection in existence why are any walls needed inside the prison? Remove those walls and thenumber wishing to become, or to remain, criminals will decline.

Why is there a wall around the cemetery? Those inside cannot get out and those outside don'twant to get in.

The famous walls of history have been failures. eg Russia's non-physical Iron Curtain wasreplaced by a physical Berlin Wall. Both have dissapeared, and good riddance. Now, Israel is

building a prison-like wall around itself to keep those on the inside safe from those on theoutside. At least, that is the opposite of a normal prison.



R obert E Hann (12/11/2006 7:59:00 PM)

Mending Wall has always been one of my favorite poems. first read in grade school, along with

Poe's The Raven the verse introduced and even defined poetry to me.

I never forget the lines that I read as, 'Some THING there is that doesn't love a wall', and, 'Goodfences make good neighbors' Unlike the previous posters I believe that good fences DO makegood neighbors...for what is a fence but a rule. A rule to say here is here and there is there.

There are different types of fences to be sure. There are those that intimidate with barbed wire or steel gates and signs posted saying KEEP OUT Under Penalty of Law....and there are 'friendly

fences' of rail or stone...gentle reminders that here is here and there is there. I say these fencesDO good neighbors make.... just ask my good neighbors.

Jeff Hatcher (10/8/2006 3:31:00 PM)

Earliest poem I heard spoken from the pulpit. Gave the complete works of Frost to a Kenyan

friend who was the head of the Kenyan Institute for Mass Communication. He later told me thathe kept the book next to his Bible. Anyone familiar with tribalism in all of its guises can

appreciate this poem. Frost's indictment of over-reliance on the wisdom of elders (at the expenseof the ventures of youth) is damning to 'this uncertain age in which we dwell'.

R obert Howard (8/9/2006 7:44:00 PM)

I remember adoring this poem in high school and concluding very quickly that good fences do

not make good neighbors and in fact fences, whether built of steel wood or aluminum or of flights of arrogance, are the enemies of good neighbor relations.

As an adult I have only lived in one house that had a fence and I tore it down after I moved in.

NAZQ.

Meresapi puisi di atas, ibarat mengungkap paradox dalam kemanusiaan manusia. Bahwa kita(manusia) menginginkan sebuah 'dinding', sebuah jarak untuk melindungi diri kita dari orang lain

(outsiders), tapi juga di sisi lain kita butuh masa2 di mana 'dinding' tsb runtuh shg kita dapat berinteraksi dengan manusia lainnya. What a paradox!

Kalimat "Good fences make good neighbors" dimaknai sebagai ' positive sense in general

conversation'. Maksudnya, coba deh inget2 dalam percakapan sehari2, klo kalimat2 yg kita

utarakan pada lawan bicara kita adalah kalimat2 yg baik, secara otomatis (dalam konteks normal)si lawan bicara akan tergerak menghargai dan menyampaikan kalimat yang baik pula kepadakita.

Yang dimaksud sbg 'The fence' (pagar) tak lain adalah pikiran kita, imaginasi yang tak ingindiganggu (saat imaginasi tsb sdg bekerja) namun sangat ingin dibagi dengan orang lain yang

berada di luar diri.



NAZQ

Mending Wall, by Robert Frost, was written around 1914 in his subsection of poems entitled "North of

Boston." This subsection means that the poems were written somewhere north of Boston,

Massachusetts. This particular poem employs a common theme within the works of Frost that focuses

on the power of nature over men and the walls that they literally and figuratively build between eachother.

Dividing Walls

1. The most prevalent theme of Mending Wall appears in the 11th line when the speaker suggests that "at spring mending time we find them there." This reference to gaps and

seasonal commitments suggests the divisions between people that tend to be resolved or exacerbated when circumstances change (the rebirth of spring).

Speaker's R eluctance

2. However, when the speaker remarks "Oh, just another kind of out-door game" he alludesto how senseless it is to continue trying to repair the wall. In this sense, the speaker

relates the gaps to the hope that people can get along and the mending to the reluctance todo so.

Nature

3. The speaker also claims that nature does not love the wall and will send "frozen ground

swell under it." This means that the wrath of nature against barriers is not match for thereal or figurative barriers that people often construct between them.

Construction

4. The poem is constructed in a single stanza as well as employing blank register andconversing voice. Much like in Frost's other works considered to be "idealistic," this type

of poetic writing is meant to give the feeling of comfort and peace (which alludes to theultimate desire of the figurative wall--to break).

Similar Poems

5. Frost uses similar thematic and structural material in other poems that he wrote during thesame period. To gain a better insight into this poem, the reader would likely find similar

thematic material in "Birches" and constructive material in "After Apple Picking."



He thinks of trying to pursued his neighbor of what he just told us, but knows better. His neighbor is the

convertional conservative man who thinks, "good fences make good neighbors.."

"Mending Walls" is one of my absolute favorite poems.

NAZQ.

There is no one and only answer. In a general way, "Mending Wall" is about the necessity of setting

boundaries for the sake of social intercourse.

The poem is on both sides of the issue: boundaries are sometimes necessary, as every farmer knows or

farmers wouldn't build walls, but it's also important to know what you are excluding and what you are

including. The poem is testy and ambivalent on this point.

The poem is often read as favoring the speaker who says, in a not unreasonable way:

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offence.

This is sustainable and makes the poem read as though the intractable neighbor who repeats, rather

mindlessly, "Good fences make good neighbors" is wrong. However, he isn't necessarily wrong, as a

careful parsing of the above will show. Sometimes it is necessary to wall others in and out. Moreover,

building a wall is also a service to another person: one is giving the other person "a fence," as the pun

shows

NAZQ

R obert Frost As Symbolist

Symbolism in general means a veiled or oblique mode of communication. A poem mayhave a surface meaning but it may also have deeper significance which is understood only

through a closer scrutiny of the poem. Many of R. Frost¶s poems are capable of a symbolicinterpretation.

The surface meaning of ³Mending Wall´ , for instance is: ³Good Fences make good

neigbours.´ But symbolically the poem states one of the serious problems of our times. Should



natural boundaries be made stronger for our protection, or should they be removed because theyrestrict our progress towards international brotherhood?

NAZQ

The Hidden Meaning of Mending Wall Mending Wall is a poem written by the Robert Frost. ... The

hidden meaning of the wall is the manifestation of the emotional barricade that separates two people.

... Every time they meet they have a hard time communicating, but they still manage to repair the wall;

the barricade between them. However, their emotions, especially the I voice try to get the boulders off

balance so the wall can be leveled with the ground. ... The wall can be taken in the physical sense as well

as the poets figment of imagination. The wall is a restriction something that walls in and walls out

things. Something which produces disturbances in the daily routine and that something that wants it

down is I voice will to attain freedom; freedom to explore the other side of the wall. But as we read on

we find that there is something that does not want the wall down and this is the tradition which has

been followed generations upon generations by the poets neighbor who without looking at it logically

blindly follows it.

NAZQ

Robert Frosts poem entitled Mending Wall shows how two neighbors interpret the reason as to why

they have to come together each year to rebuild a wall. The poem by Robert Frost is about a man who

separates his property from his neighbors with a physical wall. however the wall actually represents how

the man separates himself from his neighbors. ... So every year he wants to rebuild the wall that

hunters, nature, and animals have damaged the speaker wants to keep himself away from society, and

he wants to keep people out of his yard.

NAZQ

In the Mending Wall by Robert Frost, a story is told of two neighbors who meet annually to repair a

fence that separates their properties. The wall in this poem is much more than just a physical barrier

between two estates, it can be viewed as an emotional or psychological barrier as well. This wall can

also be seen as a metaphor for the relationship between the speaker and his neighbor. ... The poem

begins by stating that Something there is that doesnt love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell

under it. Some unseen force seems to tear the wall down just as man isnt always able to distance

himself from others.



Before I built a wall I'd ask to know Sebelum saya membangun sebuah tembok aku akan bertanya untuk

mengetahui

What I was walling in or walling out, Apa yang saya Walling atau Walling keluar,

And to whom I was like to give offence. Dan kepada siapa saya ingin memberikan pelanggaran.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, Sesuatu ada yang tidak mencintai dinding,

That wants it down.' Yang ingin turun. " I could say 'Elves' to him, Aku bisa mengatakan 'Peri' kepadanya,

But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather Tapi bukan elf persis, dan aku lebih suka

He said it for himself. Dia mengatakan hal itu untuk dirinya sendiri. I see him there Aku melihatnya di

sana

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top Membawa batu erat-erat memegang bagian atas

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. Dalam setiap tangan, seperti tua-batu liar bersenjata.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ Ia bergerak dalam kegelapan pada hemat saya ~

Not of woods only and the shade of trees. Bukan hanya hutan dan naungan pohon.

He will not go behind his father's saying, Dia tidak akan pergi di belakang ayahnya berkata,

And he likes having thought of it so well Dan dia suka karena memikirkan hal itu begitu baik

He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors." Dia berkata lagi, "Bagus pagar membuat tetangga

yang baik."

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