Analysis on mending wall
...not seem to understand. The title itself "Mending Wall" seems to suggest something about the poem. The adjective "Mending" takes the gerund, which means it, is talking about the present. Perhaps this suggest that the task is continuos and always there. Also the fact that it is not called "Mending The Wall" or "Mending A Wall" suggests that it is not just one wall, but it can be any wall anywhere. The title it is given makes the meaning of it very universal. We get the feeling of one neighbour being quite dominant over the other. The first clue we get to the narrator of the tale being quite passive is the line "I let my neighbour know beyond a hill;" Firstly the way he lets his neighbour know shows that he wants to do the right thing by informing him, yet if he does not really agree with the building of the wall, he would not bother to inform him. Another thing that suggests the submissiveness is the way "beyond a hill" is used. It suggest boundaries and being far apart from one another; they do not seem to have good communications. There is also another reference to the boundary idea is where it says "We keep the wall between us as we go." It seems t suggest that they are working together, but trying to keep each other apart as they do so, and so creating a boundary. A lot suggests that they do not really get on well. The narrator of this poem makes some sarcastic references to his neighbour's views. For example, "My apple trees will never get across / And eat the comes under his pines, I tell him." He is almost mocking his neighbours views here. He does a similar thing later on line 30 when he says "Why do they make good neighbors? Isnīt it / Where there are cows? But here there are no cows." Again he is using sarcasm deliberately to mock what his neighbour believes. There also appears to be little communication between the two ...