in the wall, big enough so that two can pass abreast, symbolizes how nature wants the wall torn down so that we can walk to each others side. But, how we dont take advantage of this and instead try to patch it up. Mending the wall itself, is also a symbol, to be exact it has two meanings, a double entondra. The first meaning is the physical one, a barrier between the youth and the older man, the second the relationship the youth and the older man make as theyre mending the wall. As the more they mend the closer they get together, and the more the youth understands the older mans traditional saying. Parallel construction In the poem there contained three parallel construction, each pertaining to the wall. Lines 10, seen them made or heard them made, corresponds to one another because you could not see or hear how the wall broke. And in lines16-17 where the boulders that have fallen, look like, loaves and balls, show what the broken wall pieces look like on the ground. The most noticeable one in the poem was in lines 14 and 15 because deals with two walls as mentioned in symbols. They are setting down the wall (physical) to keep the wall (emotional) between them. These lines demonstrate how the neighbors mend their wall, but they actually grow apart. Imagery The reader can vividly imagine the two neighbors working simitanously, side by side, and without saying a word to one another. We know how badly the walls have been damaged to the point that, gaps even two can pass abreast (line 4), and need bricks that are the size of, loaves and some so nearly balls (line 17). The reader also imagines each neighbor, One on a side (line22), with an, old-stone savage on one side and an, apple orchard on the other. Each having wore their, fingers rough with handling them, while all this is happening during spring mending-time. Allusion The only allusion in the poem was that of Napoleon Guy, who was the farming neighbor of Frost. He was the person who ...
