put down a few good poems that would be hard to get rid of. (check quote). I think he succeeded..(something) An interesting side note is that when Frost spoke about his poetry, when asked to define poetry, he used metaphors such as “a way out of something”. A word he would use 52 times in his poetry.(something) Most references to God, heaven or ultimate seem to be superficial on their own and when looked at in context to their place in the work seem to raise more questions about belief and anything else.(metaphor) Every poem is an epitome of the great predictment; a figure of the will braving alien entanglements. (walls, fences, boundaries)The poem is about our natural tendency to build walls, to wall out neighbors, to defend ourselves from others, to want privacy and our ‘space’. And then nation to nation we do the same by creating boundaries. We create imaginary borders to identify our tribe and we defend it. “But something there is that doesn’t love a wall” that wants it down. We do that. For brief moments in time we take down the walls we’ve built around ourselves, we work, not at defending ourselves, but at allowing others to get close to us, to see inside of us only to start building the walls again. Mending Wall has all three levels: it is about a particular thing – a wall. It is about Frost’s feeling about walls and its universal because it speaks to the way we all think and behave. (Frost’s quote about boundaries and nationality)(Something) Note the use of the word “something”. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall. (Frost’s use of this word in other writings). Something refers to a big, unknown unspeakable force – God? (expand on this). Or it could refer to the fact that in New England the frost heaves the ground in the winter, much as ice cubes swell up. Anything made of stone or brick suffers becau...
