Mending Wall Analysis
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In the Poem, "Mending Wall", Robert Frost displays his attitude of righteous indignation toward the importance of walls through a meeting of two neighbors as they attempt to mend the wall that separates their land, and their relationship. Throughout the poem, Frost shows a tone of genuine disbelief and unease at the fact that humans have such an urge to separate themselves from one another. Walls isolate the person who has built them, keeping them from sharing their experiences, and preventing the wall-builder from establishing any intimacy with others.
In the beginning of the poem, that "something" the speaker is referring to is nature, and it is trying to bring down the wall because like nature, the wall is gradually destroying something too. That something is the relationship between the two characters, because before the wall was being put together, the speaker refers to himself and the neighbor as "we" and "us." However, as the wall takes it's shape once more, it destroys the bond formed earlier in the poem and the speaker is now getting frustrated and referring to the neighbor as an, "old-stone savage armed." The line, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" reveals that nature has no boundaries. Nature attempts to destroy that boundary to bring humanity and the environment together in a harmonious bond. Nature has made "gaps even two can pass abreast" that shows how nature has made a hole big enough for one person to walk across, and towards another person's property to talk. However, it also shows how humans are still unknowingly walling one another out from each other's lives...