can you make an analysis of the ''mending wall'' by robert frost?

Answer 1

You gotta do your own homework, but think about when Frost wrote this poem. It was written during the cold war when walls were up all around.

Answer 2

Here's a sample from the first link below:

"Mending Wall" has two characters: its narrator and
his neighbor, owners of adjacent farms, who meet each Spring to repair the stone wall that stands between their properties. The narrator, at first glance, seems to take a somewhat sceptical attitude toward property. (We shall see that his attitude is in fact more complicated below.) The
poem opens with his words "Something there is that doesn't love a wall"--a phrase he repeats later, making it a kind of slogan for the position on property he personifies.
That position seems to reject human attempts to inscribe the arbitrary divisions of property holdings on the land. The narrator sees in natural processes an attempt to cast off this artificial imposition: that which doesn't love a wall "sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,/And spills the upper boulders in the sun." He recognizes that asserting a separation between the two parcels of property by erecting a wall is futile. For, he recognizes, the two parcels are one, connected underneath the wall by natural
processes that work unconsciously but actively against human efforts to divide them.
The neighbor, by contrast, speaks for an
individualistic belief in the value of marking property
holdings. "Good fences make good neighbors" are his only words in the poem, repeated in the last line like a counter-slogan to the narrator's."


Here's a sample from the second link:

"An Analysis of Robert Frost's Mending Wall


Mending Wall, by Robert Frost portrays the routines of two neighbors who are constantly mending the fence, or wall, that separates their properties. If a stone is missing form the fence, you can bet that the two men are out there putting it back together piece by piece.

Frost's description of every detail in this poem is quite interesting, very pleasant to read, and extremely imaginable. He leaves the reader to decide for himself what deductions he is to make from the reading. On one hand, Frost makes literal implications about what the two men are doing. For instance, they are physically putting the stones back, one by one. Their dedication, commitment, and constant drive shines through when reading how persistence these men seem about keeping the wall intact. Quite the contrary however, is the inferences that something even deeper is going on. There is a sharing experience taking place here. Indeed, by laboring so hard, each man is experiencing physical repercussions, but they are also using this time as a "meet and greet" period."

Answer 3

Sure - I could give you the cut and paste answer or I could give you my answer. How about mine? Why not relate it to the president's idea to build a wall between here and Mexico - do good fences really make good neighbors? Or even better, think about this one. Is life really better when you cannot see your neighbors? Why? Because they are different than you? If your neighbors build cars in their backyard and you like to have lawn parties, is your life really any better just because you can no longer SEE the cars in his backyard? They're still there. You cannot change a man because you have silenced - or in this case - hidden him. And what if he starts building monster trucks instead? Do you just make your wall higher? Isnt it really about toleration and learning how to accept and get along with people who are different than us? Maybe you would be better off if you tore down that fence and said good morning to your neighbor once in a while. Maybe you would find out that he was about much more than car parts in his backyard. How many people dont think about things like that? Far too many. Personally, I would opt for being one of the people who just left the stones to fall where they may and not mend the walls. I'd prefer to let the sun shine through. Pax - C.

Answer 4

I've never read it -
Us Vietnam Veterans have a "movable wall" that mends.
I'll be sure to check it out and get back to you.