APPRECIATION: MENDING WALL

                     Mending Wall

Robert frost the greatest American poet of the 20th century, presents different attitudes of two persons, the poet and his neighbour, in this poem "Mending Wall".  

The poem begins with'something there is that doesn't love a wall'. The poet wants to tell his neighbour that it may be due to frozen ground, the work of hunters, rabbits, yelping dogs. 

Through out the poem,poet describes the views of different people. The poet questions the purpose of a wall, but his neighbour replies, "good fences make good neighbours". The poet doesn't like to have a wall between them. Because, they have just apple and pine trees. His apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines. 

Wall is the most important word in the poem. The poet belives that there are two types of people wall builders and wall breakers. This poem contains lot of poetic devices, like metaphor and alliteration. The poet has used metaphor in comparing "the shapes of stones to the loaves and balls". And, the poet has used a beautiful alliteration in the line "what i was walling in or walling out. 

The wall stands as a symbol exist between people, nation, discrimination between caste, creed,religion and gender. 

It is also conveys a powerful message of universal brotherhood.

                                -Anagha Vinu