Mending walls

Mending walls

1. Structure

   • First person narrative
   • 45 lines , loose rhyme
     • Breaks rhyme to maintain feeling of conversation
     • occasional internal rhyme
   • There are no stanza breaks, obvious end-rhymes, or rhyming patterns

2. Story

   • 2 Characters meet to fix the wall yearly
     • Frost does not see the need for a wall as they have no live stalk
     • frost wonders does the earth not want walls as they mysteriously break during the year

3. Theme

   • Community
     • Frost and his neighbour meet yearly to mend the wall
     • The meeting ensures the pair maintain a healthy relationship
   • Nature
     • Frost references , rabbits, trees and live stock throughout the poem
     • Nature seems to destroy the wall as if the world does not want any walls
   • Isolation
     • Although the pair meet annually frost still walks along the wall repairing it during the year
   • People
     • Frost creates 2 contrasting characters
       • The narrator questions the need for the wall as it keeps getting destroyed and the only thing either side of the wall is trees
       • The neighbour belives the wall should be maintained in order to keep a healthy relationship even though the is absent most of the year