Mending Wall
Mending Wall
by Robert Frost
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Mending Wall Symbolism, Imagery & Wordplay

There’s more to a poem than meets the eye.

The Wall/Fences

The wall is the shining star of this poem. It unites our speaker and his neighbor, but separates them as well. As we hear the neighbor speak the proverb twice ("Good fences make good neighbors"), w...

Nature and Tradition

Nature seems to act as the third wheel in this poem – the silent character swirling around the speaker and his neighbor. Although he doesn’t explicitly describe the landscape, we see it...