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What Does The Wall Represent In The Poem, Mending Wall?
The wall in the poem ‘Mending Wall’ represents two view points of two different persons, one by the speaker and the other by his neighbour. Not only does the wall act as a divider in separating the properties, but also acts as a barrier to friendship, communication. From the narrator’s view, barriers lead to alienation and emotional isolation and loneliness. The narrator cannot help but notice that the natural world seems to dislike the existence of a wall as much as he does and therefore, mysterious gaps appear from nowhere and boulders fall for no reason. The poem portrays the lack of friendship between two neighbours, they now each other but they are not friends. There exists a communication gap between them; they meet each other only on appointed days to fix the wall separating their properties.

Thus, the poem is a sad reflection on today’s society, where man-made barriers exist between men, groups, nations based on discrimination of race, caste, creed, gender and religion.
On the other hand, the neighbour has different opinions. He believes that ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’ He considers walls as necessary to create physical barriers and for mending relations. According the poet’s neighbour, physical barriers set limits and affirm the rights of each and every individual. Walls also stand for building goodwill and trust.

The ‘wall’ is also an example of metaphor in the poem, Mending Wall.
The ‘wall’ in the poem is a metaphor for two kinds of barriers- physical and mental.
*Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
*And set the wall between us once again
*We keep the wall between as we go.

The fence symbolizes national, racial, religious, political and economic conflicts and discrimination which separate man from man and hinders the ways of understanding and cultivating relationships.
The dispute between the two neighbours symbolizes the clash between tradition and modernity. The young generation wants to demolish the old tradition and replace it with modernity while the old wants to cling on to the existing tradition and beliefs.

In “Mending Wall”, Frost has taken an ordinary incident of constructing or mending a wall between his and his neighbor’s garden and has turned it into a meditation on the division between human beings.

What dose the wall in mending wall signify ?

The wall in the poem ‘Mending Wall’ represents two view points of two different persons, one by the speaker and the other by his neighbour. Not only does the wall act as a divider in separating the properties, but also acts as a barrier to friendship, communication. From the narrator’s view, barriers lead to alienation and emotional isolation and loneliness. The narrator cannot help but notice that the natural world seems to dislike the existence of a wall as much as he does and therefore, mysterious gaps appear from nowhere and boulders fall for no reason. The poem portrays the lack of friendship between two neighbours, they now each other but they are not friends. There exists a communication gap between them; they meet each other only on appointed days to fix the wall separating their properties.

Thus, the poem is a sad reflection on today’s society, where man-made barriers exist between men, groups, nations based on discrimination of race, caste, creed, gender and religion.

On the other hand, the neighbour has different opinions. He believes that ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ He considers walls as necessary to create physical barriers and for mending relations. According the poet’s neighbor, physical barriers set limits and affirm the rights of each and every individual. Walls also stand for building goodwill and trust.

The ‘wall’ is also an example of metaphor in the poem, Mending Wall.

The ‘wall’ in the poem is a metaphor for two kinds of barriers- physical and mental.

*Something there is that doesn’t love a wall

*And set the wall between us once again

*We keep the wall between as we go.

The fence symbolizes national, racial, religious, political and economic conflicts and discrimination which separate man from man and hinders the ways of understanding and cultivating relationships.

The dispute between the two neighbours symbolizes the clash between tradition and modernity. The young generation wants to demolish the old tradition and replace it with modernity while the old wants to cling on to the existing tradition and beliefs.

In “Mending Wall”, Frost has taken an ordinary incident of constructing or mending a wall between his and his neighbor’s garden and has turned it into a meditation on the division between human beings.

Road not taken symbolism??

The two roads symbolize the choices that one has to make in life. It is very important to make the right choice because we can never retrace our path and go back. One road would lead on to another and there is no coming back.

The major theme in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," is about making choices. The speaker in the poem in traveling and comes upon a cross roads or a fork-in-the-road. Here he much decide which way to continue traveling. .

 Road is the symbol of life's journey. The dreams related to road indicate the various directions that your life has taken in the past, or the directions it will take ahead.

Road symbolizes the journey that your life is currently in. These dreams mean a lot when it comes to taking the right direction or the next turn.

A broken road means that you will face a pebbles in your life's journey, which could be named as challenges. However, once we know the routes and directions well, these will pass soon.

The striking feature of Frosts’ poems is the presentation of conflicts. Here conflict is between the right choice and wrong choice. We should always have the courage to choose the right way even if it is rough and thorny. The poem makes us think about choice we must make in life. That choice determines our destiny. The poem inspires us to face the challenging realities in life.

Out out tragic vision .

Out, Out" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost based on a true incident that happened to Frost's friend's son. The poem is set in rural environment , where a young boy cutting wood with a buzz saw is called in for "supper" by his sister. But just as he turns to come in, the saw suddenly makes contact with his hand, causing an outpouring of blood that ultimately proves fatal. This tragedy, a young boy losing his life in such a wasteful and shocking way, implicitly questions the value of life itself. Indeed, the narrator's matter-of-fact presentation of the boy's final moments, and the way in which everyone soon goes back to their daily business, suggests that death is a mundane fact of daily life. Death is a simple reality of live.