Human Relationships in Mending Wall
It is a poem by Robert Frost illustrates a relationship between individual and neighbors. He also asserts, “Good fence, good neighbors”. Which attracts the reader and lead us to discuss about it further up. A stone wall separates the speaker’s property from his neighbor’s. In spring, the two meet to walk the wall and jointly make repairs. The speaker sees no reason for the wall to be kept—there are no cows to be contained, just apple and pine trees. He does not believe in walls for the sake of walls.
The neighbor resorts to an old adage: “Good fences make good neighbors.” The speaker remains unconvinced and mischievously presses the neighbor to look beyond the old-fashioned folly of such reasoning. His neighbor will not be swayed. The speaker envisions his neighbor as a holdover from a justifiably outmoded era, a living example of a dark-age mentality. But the neighbor simply repeats the adage.
In my point of view, making the wall its not a symbol of separate them from neighbors rather it brings them every year in spring. Blank verse is the baseline meter of this poem, but few of the lines march along in blank verse’s characteristic lock-step iambs, five abreast. Frost maintains five stressed syllables per line, but he varies the feet extensively to sustain the natural speech-like quality of the verse.
There are no stanza breaks, obvious end-rhymes, or rhyming patterns, but many of the end-words share an assonance (e.g., wall, hill, balls, wall, and wellsun, thing, stone, mean, line, and again or game, them, and him twice). Internal rhymes, too, are subtle, slanted, and conceivably coincidental. The vocabulary is all of a piece—no fancy words, all short (only one word, another, is of three syllables), all conversational—and this is perhaps why the words resonate so consummately with each other in sound and feel. They work together to restore the wall every year and it make connection between them. If they really want isolate themselves from each other they could make a strong wall. Moreover, it shows the feeling for a community.
Although, I completely understand author’s statement, but I have different point of view. Likewise, writer says,
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.”
When we make partition between two person for fondness, we ask ourselves, do we really make that distance or partition to get away from that person or to get closer that person? Sometimes, we make invisible and fragile wall between a person that it could be destroyed and we can get the person more closer who we love most. Also, sometimes we sacrifice our affection for the situation. it doesn’t mean we mean we make the wall.
Situation could be an obstacle but its never can reduce our feelings. Rather we reveal our affection by silence with respect. At the end, we realize, we don’t want that wall between us. We make the wall to make our relationship more stronger.
The poem “Mending Wall” by Frost is about the world. More about community. In a same manner, there are six houses beside our house. And we all have backyard together. Even though its not barrier by wall, its just a white line. In Winter, we really don’t go to backyard that often, but in summer time we all play basketball with our neighbor, kids are ride by cycle play around, we cook barbecue all together. It’s a fine community. We send food and gift in every house in any occasion. We don’t care about the barrier even we can’t see the white line anymore. Its mixed up with the ground.
Eventually, we could say, barrier and wall between neighbor, its just formality. Rather in reality, its symbol to get our neighbor more closer.
