- But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once...
- Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
- But at spring mending-time we find them there.
- And set the wall between us once again.
- Repetition: The repeated act of mending the wall emphasizes the cyclical nature of tradition and the speaker's ongoing struggle with its meaning.
- From lines 37 to 45 of ‘Mending Wall’: Though all through the poem, the narrator wants to put his notion into his neighbor’s mind...
- Frost composed the poem at his farm in Derry, New Hampshire; his home from 1901 to 1911. "Mending Wall" is a poem by Robert Frost.
- This poem is a reflection on the necessity and futility of certain barriers, inviting us to consider which walls we should mend and which we should let crumble to...
- “Mending Wall” presents an equally futile but much less religious vision: instead of the gods, it is the frost that damages the wall over and over again, forcing the...
- 1.The Mending Wall” by Robert Frost is a poem of the physical barrier of the wall representing the psychological or symbolic barrier between two human...
- Published in 1914, Mending Wall was the first poem in Frost's second poetry collection, North of Boston .
- Mending Wall , poem by Robert Frost , published in the collection North of Boston (1914).
