the vocabulary that pertained to this poem was abreast, savage, mending and loaves. Each vocabulary word that was written has a special meaning to the poem, abreast means side by side. Nature wanted both the youth and the old man to walk side by side with one another through the wall. But the savage, meaning belonging to a primitive society, is too stubborn to do that; which is very primitive of him since he learned it from his father and will not change his attitude. The youth feels that mending the wall is only repairing the wall physically but not the wall between them emotionally, he feels they are loafing there time there, or wasting, and shouldnt bother with the wall at all. Personification There are two inanimate objects in the poems that are given human characteristics. The first is nature, Something there is that doesnt love a wall, / that send the frozen ground-swell under it/ and spills the upper-boulder in the sun (line1-3). That something the youth is referring to is nature, and it is trying to bring down the wall because like nature, the wall is gradually destroying something too. That something is the relationship between the two characters, because before the wall was being put together, the youth in lines 1-22 refers to himself and the old man as we and us. But, as the wall takes its shape once more, it destroys the bond formed earlier in the poem and the youth is now getting frustrated and referring to the old man as an, old-stone savage armed. Alliteration Frost utilizes two letters repeatedly in his poem. The letter s in lines seven and 40, stone one a stone, and,Old-stone savage, is used because of its soothing effect on the reader and the calmness it brings when the youth is so frustrated with his search of answers. The second letter Frost utilizes is w repeatedly throughout his poem in order to manifest the monotonous work that goes into building the wall. Onomatopoeia Like an auditory sound in the poem, it gives ...
