Mending Wall
Robert Frost wrote a poem Mending Wall from the first person narrator, what is effective for the full readers’ absorption into the private relations and individual outlooks of the heroes of the poem. It seems that they both get on not badly. When the teller proposed his neighbor to repair the wall between their properties after the spring coming the last one did not refuse. “And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again” (Frost). At first sign the narrator seems to be very reliable person. As a model proprietor he cares to fill all gaps in his wall but when the job, which demanded a lot of efforts [“We wear our fingers rough with handling them” (Frost)], was half done, he changed his mind and tried to convince his “stubborn” neighbor that the wall was not needed on the further area [“There where it is we do not need the wall” (Frost)]. Here the situation illustrates the sample, when the rationalism of the narrator’s way of thinking modifies into individualism, which makes him unable to think logically.
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Astonished and sneered at his immediate neighbor’s father’s saying “Good fences make good neighbours” (Frost), he conflicts with himself. At the beginning of the poem he says “I let my neighbour know beyond the hill”(Frost), so it was he who initiated the repair of the wall and incited his colleague to this. But when the work is half done he believes it isnonsense, because “there are no cows” (Frost) and “My (his) apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines” (Frost). Suddenly our hero comes to the conclusion “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out” (Frost). But what was he thinking about before? Considering such a conclusion it was much more reasonable to ruin the existing wall and avoid annual repair.
The reason why the narrator’s thoughts conflict with each other may lie is his misunderstanding of the practical significance of the wall at all. He did not view it as a structure which enclosed the private area, but wanted just to be a good owner without gaps in it, which were easy to find “at spring-mending time” (Frost). Thus he was not focused on protection but on mending.
When the nearby resident of the main hero refused to cease work, the author described him as ‘an old-stone savage armed’. He could not understand the core of his friend’s father’s saying “Good fences make good neighbours”, that emphasized that it is often easier to get on well with distant people then with nears and dears.
The teller of the poem ridicules his neighbor’s prejudices, which do have a point, but himself is somewhere in the middle of the reliability. His decisions are not firm but controversial and the understanding of the wall major significance is limited. His neighbor does not just blindly follow his father’s saying, but accept practical, logical and traditional assumptions of any good land owner.