Overcoming The Wall Annotated

In life, many people have parts that they let people see of them, and other parts that they keep hidden. Many times, we build these walls to shut people out so people can never really see what is going on inside. These “walls” keep many of one’s deepest secrets hidden. In the poem, The Mending Wall, by Robert Frost, shows a mindset of two neighbors who continue to adjust and mend their wall between each other. This idea of confinement is seen throughout the poem to show that the neighbor is trying to protect themselves. This creates speculation upon the speaker of what exactly are they trying to hide. One might see this poem as meaning a physical barrier, but this is more of an emotional “wall” or barrier that this poem creates. In the poem,

Figurative language played an important role in both of the story and poem. As shown above, both of the pome and short story used the first person point of view. There are many symbolisms

The imagery used in this verse appeals to the sense sight. This helps the reader visualise what the writer is taking about. It also allows the reader to relate and connect more to the poem.

In Robert Frost’s poem, he used a broken physical wall between two neighbors, who both have differing thoughts on the boundary, to illustrate the varying barriers that humans put up between themselves and others.

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

This poem is a rhyming pantoum poem, which is represented by the repeated words and the rhythm of the poem. Theirs is also no uses of a simile or metaphors on this poem, but this poem does contain a great deal of imagery. What is imagery? Imagery can be described as the visualizing the mental images, figures, or things of the text. Imagery in this poem is important, because it helps give the reader a visual of the theme and can also help to understand it a

The poet also used imagery to appeal to the senses. The puzzling force that abhors the wall "sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun."

Building physical and emotional walls has a negative impact on the people, countries, and civilizations they divide. In the case of Frost's poem, the wall took away the narrator's voice. The narrator disliked the wall, but was too timid to speak up for what he believes in. His neighbor says "good walls make good neighbors," but the narrator felt as if the wall should be torn down, and they should unite

“Where there’s a wall” by Joy Kogawa is an enticing poem. it includes an abundance of imagery hidden within the words telling a tail of hidden secrets and pathways to get there. It’s a tricky poem to understand but you can see the layers or symbolism in every line. In certain parts of the poem it describes doors and passageways, and to try and direct yourself in the correct path Gods wants you to follow.

For example, the author wrote in the poem that “she wants to hear wine pouring/she wants to taste change.” This is imagery because I believe she wants to change her life, and become a fancier person. I really thought that the imagery part of the poem “Sunday Greens” was the most helpful in finding the theme because in Stanza 1, saying “you want to taste change” and “hear wine pouring” is telling us she really wants a better life. Also, the imagery is important because it describes every single detail which could help you know what’s going on. In addition, the poem shifts from a girl wanting to change her life because every day she only cooks the common boring food everybody eats. Then, it shifts to her remembering her mother’s life. In my opinion, the theme of the poem helped me find the theme because when the poem shifted from the girl to her mother’s life, it revealed to me that the girl didn’t want the same miserable life her mother had. I also believe that the shift was the second most important part of the poem because the element helped me understand everything the girl is going through. These were the two main elements that helped me find the theme of the

Robert Frost has written a poem called the “Mending Wall” to portray a physical and emotional meaning. When someone mentions a wall, people think about a physical barrier separating one thing from another. Robert Frost does mention a physical barrier between one person to another but also an emotional connection between the one person to another. He mentions the physical barrier as something that helps build the relationship. The poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost utilizes a physical and emotional meaning in use of diction and figurative language.

The use of visual imagery in each poem immensely contributed to conveying the theme. In the poem

“The parallel plots of a novel… would act in the reader's mind and perhaps the author's as a kind of splitting” (Holland). Frost meant the wall to embody the physical and psychological boundaries people set up to maintain their privacy. The narrator tone for most of the poem is ironic, because he expresses his desire to rid himself of the wall “There where it is we do not need the wall” (Frost 245), but he repairs it nonetheless, “I have come after them and made repair” (Frost 245). Frost introduces the reader with different causes for the recurring destruction of the wall. The narrator’s first possible cause is nature, but does Frost means a force of nature? His choice of words where “Frozen-ground-swell” (Frost 245), which is another way of saying Frost. The poet might be indicating that in actuality he is the one that want the wall destroyed. The second possible reason for the wall’s destruction is the hunters. The narrator constantly expresses his dislike of the wall, but is quick to reprimand anyone who destroys it; in this case the hunters. The narrator’s act of patching the wall when damaged, is a clear sign that he yearns for a psychological to distance him from the neighbor. This ironic tone continues throughout the poem, but it is never completely clear it the speaker wants the wall removed for good, or keep it as it is. The neighbor on the other hand,

Wall’s are blockages used to isolate a human beings wants and feelings. Privacy should be respected by all although offensiveness was not intended by either neighbor. The speaker’s logic was that the wall blocking the properties were absurd. The essential purpose of the poem is the desire by one neighbor to have a

In the poem Mending Wall the two neighbors have constructed a wall in between each others homes. When its mending time in the early spring, after hunters and nature have torn the rocks from the wall. The narrator questions the purpose of having a wall while his neighbor claims that “good fences make good neighbors” The narrator feels as though the wall is unnecessary. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard./ My apple trees will never get across/ and eat the cones under his pines.” Frost 26-28 Frost gets the point across that big huge walls that serve no purpose just separate neighbors unneededly and provide only a line between the two pieces of land. The narrator feels like there shouldn't be any boundaries between neighbors and, that neighbors should be in unity not isolated from one