Mending wall by robert frost

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ENGLISH CHAPTER ASSIGNMENT TOPIC : MENDING WALL BY-ROBERT FROST

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ENGLISH CHAPTER ASSIGNMENT

TOPIC : MENDING WALL

BY-ROBERT FROST

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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)

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Sharon Olds, , won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for

“Stag’s Leap.”

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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“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,

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Man builds walls

Nature destroys the

barrier

Repairs it out of tradition and habit

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CAUSES

NATURAL

MAN-MADE

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BOULDERS

LOAVES OF

BREAD

TENNIS

BALLS

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WALL

MENTAL PHYSICAL

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THE WALL

SEPERATES THE TWO

BONDS THEM

TOGETHER

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POSITIVE

Brings the both together

Opportunity to interact

NEGATIVE

No real necessity

Primitive or traditional act

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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

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• “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)

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• 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.”

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• “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”

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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”

 

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SHUBHAM SHEKAR INTRODUCTION

NANDA KISHORE POEM IN DETAIL

GOKUL SUMMARY OF THE POEM (absent)

MEGHNA DEY LITERARY DEVICES

.THANK YOU.

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