Mending Wall Essays
Traditions have always had a substantial effect on the lives of human beings, and always will. Robert Frost uses many unique poetic devices in his poem Mending Wall, as well as many shifts in the speaker s tone to develop his thoughts on traditions. The three predominant tones used are those of questioning, irony and…
The poems ?Mending Wall’ and ?Home Burial’ are about division, both on a physical level and on a mental level. ?Mending Wall’ on first reading is a very simplistic poem about the annual repairing of a wall but after closer reading we can see it has a darker meaning. The poem begins with a disjointed…