Monday, August 15, 2016

Can someone help me find all the literary devices in Mending wall by Robert Frost, along with the meaning of the poem.

Frost's "Mending Wall" is about two neighbors who have a wall separating their properties. Every spring, they walk together along the wall and replace the bits of stone that have fallen from it, making sure that it will be strong for another year. However, the narrator does not really think there is need for the wall any longer; "my apple trees will never get across/and eat the cones under his pines," he says, suggesting that there is no need for a wall without animals to be kept in place. The neighbor, however, is insistent that they keep the wall, his only reasoning being the old adage, "Good fences make good neighbors." Some part of him believes in divisions for the sake of divisions.
This is one of Frost's early poems, and one of his most famous. In it, Frost uses allusion, referring to "the work of hunters" in whose footsteps he is following. Meanwhile, the literal wall is also a symbol of separation: "we keep the wall between us as we go."
The semantic field of the "hunter" and "savage" is continued with the simile describing the neighbor as "like an old-stone savage armed." Meanwhile, the building of this purposeless wall is compared to "an outdoor game," indicating that the speaker sees no value in it.

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