Roll No – 19
-Year - 2014-2016
Paper name – The American literature
Study – M.A
SEM - 3
Topic – Mending well- Critical analysis
Guided by – Heenaba Zala
Submitted to – Department of English
University –
Maharaja Krishnakumar sinhji Bhavnagar University
Something there is
that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the
frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper
boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even
two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is
another thing:
I have come after them
and made repair
Where they have left
not one stone on a stone,
But they would have
the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping
dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them
made or heard them made,
But at spring
mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour
know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet
to walk the line
And set the wall
between us once again.
We keep the wall
between us as we go.
To each the boulders
that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves
and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell
to make them balance:
"Stay where you
are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers
rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind
of out-door game,
One on a side. It
comes to little more:
There where it is we
do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I
am apple orchard.
My apple trees will
never get across
And eat the cones
under his pines, I tell him.
He only says,
"Good fences make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief
in me, and I wonder
If I could put a
notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall
I'd ask to know
What I was walking in
or walling out,
And to whom I was like
to give offence.
Something there is
that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it
down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves
exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for
himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone
grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an
old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness
as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and
the shade of trees.
He will not go behind
his father's saying,
And he likes having
thought of it so well
He says again,
"Good fences make good neighbors."
Introduction
Mending well
poem is written by Robert frost. He was born on 26 March, 1874. Robert frosts’
become interested to read and write poetry during his school days. He completed
high school or college in 1892 Harvard University. Robert frost was written
famous and interest poem ‘‘Mending
Well’’ is published in 1917. He was first unusual and natural and American
popular
poet. Robert frost was died on 20 January 1963. It is a
neighbored and wall. “Mending” wall, it keeps the relationship between the two
neighbors in good Condition. Take up a philosophical analysis of the purpose of
the wall. The speaker see both the practically of maintaining the wall in some
places
The poem has two main
subjects
·
The Wall
·
The speaker’s
neighbor
“Mending Well” is a Dramatic narrative poem. The narrator, a New England
farmer, contacts his neighbor and between two farms. Wall structure is very
beautiful and perspective of the way. “Mending” considered as an adjective, the
title suggests that the wall serves a more subtle function. Initiates the
mending of the wall “I let my neighbor know beyond the hill”.
The first line speaker begins with addressing
the wall. He starts the poem saying that there is something that doesn’t
want the wall to exist. If they can have poem are very immoral and
sophisticated of the way. The speaker sees
both the practicality of maintaining the wall in some places and the
impracticality of maintaining the wall where there is no physical need for it. That is rather than dividing the poem into stanzas or other formal sections;
Frost presents an unbroken sequence of lines.
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The speaker sees both the practicality of maintaining the
wall in some places and the impracticality of maintaining the wall where there
is no physical need for it.
2 to 4 lines are analysis
to water freezes it expands, and when it melts, it shrinks. Because of this
process the boulders debilitate and leave gaps in the wall that even two can
pass walking side-by-side. The poet believed that it is a good idea not to shut
out people with walls. The other statement shows that the neighbor doesn’t like
people. Speaker approve of this allows people to communicate rather than set up
divisions between them.
Next is 5 to
9 lines are author then gives an example of hunters and their dogs. Hunters
tear down the wall so much to get their prey. While they do this their dogs are
yipping until the hunters get the hare. After the hunters have broken
through the wall, the speaker then goes and repairs it.
10 to 15 lines are a speaker
does not know when the wall was made spring mending-time refers to a new born speaker
fixes wall in spring. The only time is when they repair the wall that keeps
them separate. Apparently the speaker has a neighbor that
lives over the hill, and they meet up one day to fix the wall, sense of
separation and division.
“Wall
between us”
repetition emphasizing the wall irony on “wall” because it separates and brings
together speaker and neighbor.
In the
next line 16 to 19 Repetition of “each” stresses their
separateness and also the neighbour’s somewhat childish and absurd attitude. It is a difficult task because the boulders
are all in different sizes, some are big like loaves and some are small like
balls. They have to use a “spell” to have the boulders stay still so the wall
won’t fall.
20 to 24 lines are the speaker and
neighbor’s fingers are rough because they are handling rocks. The speaker
begins to see the wall as a part of a game. Literal: the speaker is being
playful with his neighbor. It hardly comes to anything more than just a game to
the speaker. The speaker finally sees that the wall is not needed. His neighbor
owns pine trees and the speaker owns apple trees.
In another are lines 25-27 His apple
trees will not grow to a point where it will interfere with the pine trees. The
speaker personifies the apple trees. 24 line are….
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28
to 32 lines are a spring makes the speaker
mischievous baby learning messes with everything. Wonders if he can change the
neighbor’s mind about having a wall. Fences make good neighbors since no cows
are there to wall in Wants to know why he would
build a wall.
Next is 33 to 36 lines are Wonders if the
wall would offend anybody and Pun in
“offense” “a fence” Refers back to 1st
line (repetition) animal/ humans out there in the world that don’t want/
love walls. Instead they want the wall
down. Excuse is that an elf is breaking the wall down, not him playful.
37 to 42 some natural thing in nature that
does not approve of the presence of the wall. His true “motives”
are starting to become clearer – he wants to change the way his neighbour
thinks – WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE WALL? The woods in the aforementioned line are on
the edge of hell. This signifies that the neighbor is on the verge of insanity.
And last three lines 43-45- the
neighbor's saying “good fences make
good neighbors” actually isn’t his but
his father’s tradition, and he wants to keep tradition of the wall. He is not prepared
to think beyond that which he has been taught poem ends with the REPETITION of
his father’s words.
Theme
The central theme is the wall good or bad for the
relationship between the two neighbors. “Mending Wall” is about two
kinds of barriers—physical and emotional.
This poem explores mankind’s need to building boundaries and to respect
the roles and regulation of society. The wall is built to separate the
neighbour and each yr rebuilt to it. A respectful distance between neighbours
is the recipe for harmonious relationship. He also
wants to believe that a similar “something” exists in human nature, and he sees
the spring season both as the source of the ground swells that unsettle the
stone wall. Also there is the play on “mending” as both a verb and an
adjective. Even though the speaker finds the wall unnatural, it is his neighbor
known it is time to mend the wall. One of the most striking themes in Frost’s
poetry is man isolation for his universe or alienation from his
environment. Man is essentially alone, as borne out in frost poetry.
Dominated imaginary
The Wall
A rough stone wall of irregularly shaped
stones, typical of New England landscape, formed with odd rocks from the
fields. Made to be useful, not beautiful
The Farms
We picture pastures with cows, an apple
orchard and wood lots
The “old-stone
savage armed”
This
simile transforms the poem from a narrative of a farm ritual to a greater
statement about humankind
Or
The
farmer becomes representative of close-minded, provincial people who are unwilling
to consider a new outlook.
Symbolism
A character,
action, setting or object representing something else can be symbols. The most
important of the Wall also symbolize and different away. As soon as “I” find
the toppling wall, “I
let the neighbor know beyond the hill” and prepare to mend the wall. To the speaker, erecting a wall is a
conventional concept, deeply ingrained in the mind. It is out of instinct that
the speaker acknowledges the
neighbor to repair the wall together.
Figure of speech
Metaphor
Metaphor is comparison between and it is
a very different. Meaning his or her life is full of ups and downs. Here, the speaker is comparing his or her neighbor to a pine tree and himself, or herself, to an
apple orchard.
Personification
Personification is the giving of human
characteristics or traits to human and living things. For example-
"Good fences make good neighbors."
Only
humans can make good neighbors and this shows the personification of the
fence. Conclusion
It is poem about two neighbors and Wall. If they can have dominant and personification of the way. “Mending Wall” is a poem that resists a literal reading. What begins as a simple poem about farm life becomes a criticism of all people whose perspectives are limited.
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