In the poem The Pasture, Frost uses a literary technique to emphasize the line “I shan’t be gone long. ---You come too.” (pg. 889) by repeating it at the end of the first stanza and as the last line of the poem. He also makes it clear that he wants on line to be specially noticed because he puts it in parenthesis. “(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):” (pg. 889)

In the first line of Mending Wall “Something there that is that doesn’t love a wall,” (pg. 889) sounds like the words are in the wrong order. Here he uses the literary technique known as syntax. In the line “… The gaps I mean,“ he returns to an idea brought up at the beginning of the poem, after drifting into a different thought altogether, when he refers to the gaps in a couple lines above “And makes gaps even two can pass abreas

t.” In one line he says “And on a day we meet to walk the line” (pg. 889) Frost uses the word “line” as a substitute for “wall” which creates the idea of a finite separation between the two properties, at least in his neighbors eyes, with no room for variation. “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls” (pg. 889) this technique is a metaphor, saying the rocks are like loaves even though they really aren’t. At one point Frost uses personification to explain why they would not need the wall. He says “He is all pine and I am apple orchard./ My apple trees will never get across/ And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.” (pg. 889) this is insinuating that Frost’s apple trees couldn’t walk across to his neighbor’s property like cows would, even if the wall was not there. He also uses personification a couple lines above when he says, about the rocks, “We have to use a spell to make them balance;/ ‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’” (pg. 889) He talks to the rocks as if they are people, and that they can hold back their falling until the men have gone away. One line on page 890 of the text repeats the first line “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” which leads you to believe there is a greater significance in that line. It is the same with the line “Good fences make good neighbors” which is said in one line on page 889 and the last line on page 890.

The line “I lived on air” (pg. 896) in To Earthward is an example of a metaphor, the narrator isn’t really livin

Some topics in this essay:
Frost’s Birches, Mending Wall, Apple-Picking Frost, Snowy Evening, Robert Frost, Pasture Frost, pg 889, pg 894, literary technique, frost literary, line page, poem frost syntax, frost literary technique, doesn’t love wall”, frost word, line “i, line page 890, poems themes, frost syntax, “something doesn’t love, pg 896,